Free MAXQDA Alternatives

The best free alternative to MAXQDA is Voyant Tools, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MAXQDA and 16 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to MAXQDA are QualCoder, RQDA, QDAcity and Taguette.

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  1. 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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. 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.

    29 QualCoder alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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.

    26 RQDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. QDAcity icon
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    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)
     
  5. Taguette icon
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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Wired-Marker icon
     8 likes

    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
     
  7. CATMA icon
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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
     
  8. AcademiaOS icon
     1 like

    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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. AQUAD icon
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    Aquad helps you to analyze qualitative data (text, video, audio, images).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. KH Coder icon
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    KH Coder is a free software for quantitative content analysis or text mining. It is also utilized for computational linguistics. You can analyze many languages including Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. QueryVeil icon
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    QueryVeil is a privacy-first AI data analyst that runs entirely in the browser. Users can drop in CSV, Excel, JSON, or Parquet files and ask questions in plain English — the AI doesn't just generate a single query, it investigates like a real analyst: running multiple SQL...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Statspresso is a next-generation Business Intelligence platform that transforms complex data into instant, actionable insights through conversational AI.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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