Magnolia Alternatives

Magnolia is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Magnolia for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best Magnolia alternative is QualCoder, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Magnolia are ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, NVivo and Lattice QDA.

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  1. 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.

    31 QualCoder alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. ATLAS.ti icon
     10 likes

    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.

    36 ATLAS.ti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  3. MAXQDA icon
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    MAXQDA 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.

    33 MAXQDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. 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...

    35 NVivo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Lattice QDA icon
     1 like

    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.

    10 Lattice QDA alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. RQDA icon
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    RDQA is a R package for Qualitative Data Analysis, a free (free as freedom) qualitative analysis software application (BSD license). It works on Windows, Linux/FreeBSD and (probably) the Mac OSX platforms. RQDA is an easy to use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data.

    28 RQDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. QDAcity icon
     1 like

    QDAcity emerged from a research project within the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg at the professorship for open source software which started in 2014.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Taguette icon
     10 likes

    A spin on the phrase "tag it!", Taguette is an open source qualitative research tool that allows users to:

    • Import PDFs, Word Docs, Text files, HTML, ...
    • Tag snippets with codes you create
    • Export tagged documents, highlights for a specific tag
    29 Taguette alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Quirkos icon
     4 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Dedoose icon
     8 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Transana icon
     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. OpenQDA icon
     1 like

    Open-source collaborative qualitative data analysis software.

    8 OpenQDA alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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