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 15 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to NVivo are QualCoder, RQDA, Taguette and KH Coder.

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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
     
  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.

    22 QualCoder alternatives

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    • Mac
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  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.

    20 RQDA alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
     
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    Comments about RQDA as an Alternative to NVivo
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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.

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    Unable to share files, import files and keep the formatting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • RQDA is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
  4. 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
     
  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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8.  5 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

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    • Mac
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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

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. 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
     
  11. 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...

    5 Curasynth alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  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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