Free NVivo Alternatives

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

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

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. 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
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  5. 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.

    9 QDA Miner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. 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.

    79 Julius alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. 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
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  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Coding Analysis Toolkit (also known as CAT) helps to code raw datasets, annotate text, among other data analysis functions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Curasynth icon
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    Curasynth is an AI-powered research platform designed to streamline and automate various aspects of academic and clinical research, from writing and data analysis to protocol generation. It provides an all-in-one platform for researchers to increase efficiency and reduce the...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. 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
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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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