MAXQDA Alternatives

MAXQDA is described as 'For Windows and Mac is a professional software for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis. The world leading software (since 1989) helps thousands of researchers world wide do successful research' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to MAXQDA for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and SaaS apps. The best MAXQDA alternative is ATLAS.ti. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try QualCoder or Voyant Tools. Other great apps like MAXQDA are NVivo, Provalis Research, Dedoose and Lattice QDA.

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  1. ATLAS.ti icon
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    Research software offers AI-powered data importation and analysis, free 200 million AI paper library access, ensuring insights and transparent AI results across all platforms.

    37 ATLAS.ti alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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  2. NVivo icon
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    Software for qualitative data analysis in every setting - from market research to content analysis and evaluation. QSR International’s products: XSight and NVivo are designed to help researchers and other people analyzing audio, video, photos, Word documents and PDF documents to...

    36 NVivo alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. QualCoder icon
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    A very complete Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) written in Python, that continues the work that was done with RQDA. It works with text, images, and multimedia as audios and videos.

    32 QualCoder alternatives

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  4. Voyant Tools icon
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    Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis, reading and visualization environment. Developed by a small team of digital humanities scholars led by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell, Voyant Tools is designed for a very wide range of applications and users, from students...

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Provalis Research is a world's leading developer of text analysis software with ground-breaking qualitative and quantitative analysis programs, such as QDA Miner, an innovative mixed-methods qualitative data analysis software; WordStat, a powerful add-on module for computer...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Dedoose icon
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    Dedoose was designed from the ground up—by researchers, for researchers—to meet the needs of today’s social scientists working in academia, marketing, and education—virtually anyone looking for innovative software to facilitate the search for answers to research questions via...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. Lattice QDA icon
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    Lattice is a free and open-source Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS). Built with the Lazarus IDE and Free Pascal Compiler, it is designed to be native, lightweight, fast, and scalable, with no heavy frameworks or dependency trees.

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    • Windows
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  8. InfraNodus icon
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    InfraNodus can visualize any research notes, ideas, texts, even the Google search results on a certain topic as a text network. The words are the nodes and their co-occurrences are the connections between them.

    12 InfraNodus alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Dovetail icon
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    Organize research data & user feedback, analyze it together, and share insights with your team. Understand your customers with Dovetail and build better things.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. Magnolia icon
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    Magnolia is free and open-source qualitative data analysis software released under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). It is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It writes the open REFI-QDA standard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Quirkos icon
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    Quirkos is a software package that helps people sort, manage and understand large amounts of text. It helps users tag or code relevant sections of text, and collate and compare themes across dozens of different text sources.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Transana icon
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    Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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