Find Most Popular List Items

Find and rank the most frequent items in your list with the Find Most Popular List Items Tool. This tool counts each unique line, sorts by frequency, and optionally limits to a Top N list. You can also show percentage breakdowns for each item. Supports trimming, case-insensitive counting, ignoring blanks, and includes file import/export and copy functionality.

Paste your input above or import a file below.
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Supported file types: .txt, .csv, .log, .json, and others
Total items: 0
Options
Show percentages
Case insensitive
Trim lines
Ignore empty lines
Maximize output

How to Use:

  • Paste your list into the Input List box.
  • Or click Choose File to load a list from a file.
    Supported file types: .txt, .csv, .tsv, .log, .json, .xml, .md, .yaml, .ini, .html, .css
  • The tool automatically analyzes the list and displays the most frequent entries.
  • Adjust the Top N setting to show a limited number of popular items.
  • Toggle Show percentages to see each item’s relative frequency.
  • Toggle Case insensitive to ignore letter casing when counting.
  • Toggle Trim lines to remove leading/trailing spaces from each line.
  • Toggle Ignore empty lines to skip blank entries.
  • Toggle Maximize output to expand the output box if needed.
  • Click Find Most Popular to update the results if you’ve changed options.
  • Use Copy Output or Export to File to save your results.
  • The total item count updates under the Most Popular Items box.
  • Click Clear All to reset the tool completely.

What Find Most Popular List Items can do:

This tool helps you quickly figure out which items show up most often in a list. Whether you’re looking at survey responses, product mentions, email logs, or tags, it gives you a clean, ranked view of the most repeated entries. You can customize how it treats spacing, case, and blank lines and even see what portion of the list each item represents. It’s fast, simple, and runs entirely in your browser without uploading anything.

Example:

Input:

apple
banana
banana
cherry
apple
banana
date
apple

Output:

banana (3)
apple (3)
cherry (1)
date (1)

Common Use Cases:

Perfect for analyzing text lists from feedback, user input, inventory, or logs. Great for finding trends, repeats, or just cleaning up data.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

If you’re looking for the most common items in a list, Find Duplicate List Items is a solid companion it shows you which entries repeat, even if they don’t top the chart. And once you know what’s showing up most, Sort a List helps you reorder everything so the popular ones rise to the top. Super useful for spotting trends, summarizing responses, or analyzing data at a glance.

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