Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for singularizing healds, which are lined up via eyes on supporting rails to form a stack. In a method and an apparatus which carefully handle the healds during the separation and subsequent transport away from the stack and stress them as little as possible, especially by friction, the frontmost heald (15, 16) in the stack is laterally deflected in one region (11) of the heald and removed from the stack. The frontmost heald is then removed from the stack in further regions in a direction pointing away from the stack and is finally transported further away from the stack in the region of its eyes (7) along the supporting rails by transport members (12, 13).