An apparatus for distributing a stream of products comprises an ingoing conveyor and an outgoing conveyor which are configured to convey the products along a conveying direction and which are arranged behind one another viewed in the conveying direction. At least two distributor conveyors which are arranged behind one another viewed in the conveying direction between the ingoing conveyor and the outgoing conveyor and which are each configured to convey the products along the conveying direction are displaceable independently of one another transverse to the conveying direction.