Supports bullets (•, -, *, ▪, ▸), numbers (1. 2.) or comma/semicolon separated
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Paste your list and click Clean List// normalize separators, bullets, numbering & line breaks
Clean and normalize messy lists instantly. Fix inconsistent bullets, numbering, separators, and line breaks. Free browser-based tool, no sign-up required.
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Paste your list and click Clean ListDrop any messy list into the input — bullets, numbers, commas, semicolons, mixed formats.
Select output format and toggle cleaning options like removing duplicates or sorting.
Hit Clean List, then copy the result to clipboard or download as a .txt file.
List Cleaner normalizes messy, inconsistently formatted lists into clean, uniform output. Whether your list uses mixed bullet styles, leftover numbers, random blank lines, or comma-separated fragments — this tool strips the noise and gives you a consistent result in seconds.
The tool strips all common bullet prefixes including •, -, *, –, —, ▪, ▸, ▶, ◦, ○, and numbered prefixes like 1., 1), or (1).
Yes. The tool auto-detects comma or semicolon separated input and splits it into individual items, which you can then output as bullets, numbers, or plain lines.
Yes. Deduplication keeps the first occurrence of each item and removes all subsequent repeats, preserving the original list order unless you also enable Sort.
Duplicate detection is case-insensitive by default. "Apple" and "apple" are treated as the same item and the first occurrence is kept.
Currently the tool processes one item per line. Each non-empty line after stripping bullets becomes one list item.
No. All processing happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
A list cleaner is a text utility that takes inconsistently formatted lists — whether pasted from documents, emails, web pages, or code — and normalizes them into a clean, uniform output. When you're dealing with lists that came from multiple sources, formatting is almost never consistent. You might have some items using dashes, others using bullet points, a few with numbers, and some with no prefix at all. Blank lines may be scattered throughout, and some items may be duplicated.
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The JLV List Cleaner handles all of this automatically. Paste your list, configure your preferences, click clean — and you get consistent, ready-to-use output in seconds.
List formatting inconsistencies are extremely common and happen for several reasons. When content is copied from different sources — a PDF, a Google Doc, a web page, a spreadsheet, an email — each source encodes lists differently. PDFs often render bullet points as special Unicode characters. Google Docs may use • while Word uses -. Markdown files use * or -. Plain-text files may use no prefix at all, or use numbers.
When you combine multiple lists or copy from multiple places, you end up with a jumbled mix of formats that looks unprofessional and is hard to reuse. A list cleaner strips all of those inconsistencies and gives you a single normalized format of your choice.
The List Cleaner supports four output formats to match different use cases:
IN () clauses.The tool offers several independent cleaning options that can be combined:
The tool auto-detects a wide range of input formats. If your input appears to be comma or semicolon separated (single-line or wrapped), it will be split on those delimiters. If the input is multi-line, each line is treated as a potential item. Bullet prefixes that are recognized and stripped include:
- item* item• item– item, — item▪ item▸ item, ▶ item○ item, ◦ item1. item, 1) item, (1) itemCleaning pasted content from Notion or Confluence. These tools often produce bullet lists with Unicode bullet characters when copied as plain text. Pasting into List Cleaner and enabling Strip Bullets gives you clean plain-text or re-formatted output instantly.
Preparing tag or keyword lists. You might have a keyword list from a spreadsheet column that needs to become a comma-separated string for a meta tag. Use Plain or Comma output, enable Remove Duplicates, and you have your tags ready in one click.
Normalizing lists before importing to a database. When batch-inserting items from a user-supplied list, the last thing you want is inconsistent leading/trailing spaces or duplicate entries. Running the list through the cleaner first makes downstream processing much safer.
Markdown documentation cleanup. If you maintain documentation in Markdown, you've likely inherited lists from various contributors with inconsistent bullet styles. The List Cleaner can normalize them to a consistent - or • style before you paste back.
You might wonder how List Cleaner differs from a simple duplicate line remover or whitespace remover. Those tools do one job each. List Cleaner is specifically designed for list content — it understands bullet syntax, can reformat lists into different styles, handles separator-split input, and combines multiple cleaning steps in a single pass. It's the right tool when your concern is list formatting specifically, rather than raw line manipulation.