NVivo Alternatives

NVivo is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to NVivo for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best NVivo alternative is MAXQDA. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Voyant Tools or QualCoder. Other great apps like NVivo are ATLAS.ti, RQDA, Taguette and Dedoose.

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  1. 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.

    25 MAXQDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. 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.

    27 ATLAS.ti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  3. 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...

    21 Voyant Tools alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. 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.

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    • Mac
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  5. 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.

    20 RQDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    RQDA vs NVivo Comments
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    It's an R program and I am specifically looking for something with an easy UI so older professors who use NVivo don't have to alter their workflow so severely, such as by having to learn to code.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Unable to share files, import files and keep the formatting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • RQDA is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
  6. 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
    21 Taguette alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Dedoose vs NVivo Comments
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    Web-based, so perfect for collaboration and mixed methods focus

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Dedoose is Paid and ProprietaryNVivo is also Paid and Proprietary
  8. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9.  6 likes

    VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. These networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling, or co-authorship relations.

    6 VOSviewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Condens icon
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    Condens helps to analyze and share data from UX research and build a research repository.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. QDA Miner icon
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    QDA Miner Lite is a free and easy-to-use version of our popular computer assisted qualitative analysis software. It can be used for the analysis of textual data such as interview and news transcripts, open-ended responses, etc. as well as for the analysis of still images.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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