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 Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best MAXQDA alternative is Voyant Tools, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MAXQDA are QualCoder, InfraNodus, ATLAS.ti and NVivo.

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  1. Voyant Tools icon

    Voyant Tools

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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...

    21 Voyant Tools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Voyant Tools is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to MAXQDA.

    • Voyant Tools is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MAXQDA.

    • Voyant Tools is Free and Open SourceMAXQDA is Paid and Proprietary
  2. QualCoder icon

    QualCoder

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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.

    22 QualCoder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. InfraNodus icon

    InfraNodus

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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

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • InfraNodus is the most popular SaaS alternative to MAXQDA.

    • InfraNodus is the most popular commercial alternative to MAXQDA.

    • InfraNodus is Paid and ProprietaryMAXQDA is also Paid and Proprietary
    • InfraNodus is LightweightMAXQDA is not according to our users
  5. ATLAS.ti icon

    ATLAS.ti

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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.

    27 ATLAS.ti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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  6. NVivo icon

    NVivo

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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...

    29 NVivo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. RQDA icon

    RQDA

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Taguette icon

    Taguette

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    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
    21 Taguette alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Wired-Marker icon

    Wired-Marker

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    Wired-Marker is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. The highlighter, which comes in various colors and styles, is a kind of electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a Web page.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox
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  11. CATMA icon

    CATMA

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    CATMA is a practical and intuitive tool for literary scholars, students and other parties with an interest in text analysis and literary research. By helping perform many of the procedures useful for literary analysis that normally have to be carried out entirely manually, CATMA...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    AcademiaOS

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    Find Academic Papers: Building on the SemanticScholar corpus and OpenAI embeddings, AcademiaOS finds and ranks relevant papers to your search queries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    Automated Theory Construction
     
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    Quirkos

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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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. Dedoose icon

    Dedoose

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Data Selector
     
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    Amazing software, cheaper and more functionality! Love you Dedoose!

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    • Dedoose is Paid and ProprietaryMAXQDA is also Paid and Proprietary
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