Word List Duplicate Remover

Lists come in handy for quite the variety of tasks and activities, but there’s also the chance to have multiple entries of the same kind if different individuals add to it, or if it’s just too lengthy to periodically check. Luckily, you can use specialized applications like Word List Duplicate Remover to have surplus items removed.

There’s no setup involved to make the application work, but you do need to install .NET Framework if it’s not already there. On the other hand, you can easily consider the application a portable tool which you can carry around on a thumb drive to always have at hand. Registry entries are not modified during runtime, so the health status of the target PC remains intact.

As far as the interface goes, you find a simple set of features wrapped around a clean window frame, which doesn’t really pose any accommodation problems. Several fields need to be filled in with files representing the list, Anki export file, as well as the output directory. Note, however, that you can only process one list at a time.

The application is only capable of working with TXT files, which is rather disappointing, especially since batch processing is not supported. The original file remains intact, and the output consists of two items, namely the processed file without duplicates, as well as a TXT document which contains detected duplicates.

The entire operation is finished in the blink of an eye, but this is mostly because it only processes plain text. In case you always want to have it at hand, a neat trick is to assign a hotkey command to its shortcut from the Properties panel, allowing launch regardless of your Explorer location.

Word List Duplicate Remover is a straightforward tool you can use to get rid of surplus items on a crowded list. Portability adds a lot to flexibility, and the whole process is easy to configure. However, it could have used an option to support batch processing.