Free MAXQDA Alternatives

The best free alternative to MAXQDA is QualCoder, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MAXQDA and 19 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to MAXQDA are Voyant Tools, Lattice QDA, Magnolia and KH Coder.

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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.

    32 QualCoder alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

    26 KH Coder alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. A unified platform where researchers can code interviews, analyse numbers, and use AI to bridge the gap between qualitative themes and quantitative metrics.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. 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

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. 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

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    • Online
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  9.  Like

    QCAmap is an open access web application for systematic text analysis in scientific projects based on the techniques of qualitative content analysis (Mayring, 2022).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Julius icon
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    Julius AI is an advanced data analysis tool that leverages artificial intelligence to interpret, analyze, and visualize complex data sets, simplifying data analysis for individuals lacking expertise in data science or statistics.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. AcademiaOS icon
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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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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