Free NVivo Alternatives

The best free alternative to NVivo is QualCoder, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NVivo and 14 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to NVivo are RQDA, Voyant Tools, Taguette and CATMA.

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NVivo alternatives page was last updated Oct 19, 2024
  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.

    22 QualCoder alternatives
    Coding text

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    QualCoder Features

    1.  Qualitative Data Analysis
    2.  Content analysis
    3.  Offline coding
    4.  Community-based
    5.  Automatic Tagging
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    • QualCoder is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to NVivo.

    • QualCoder is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NVivo.

    • QualCoder is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
  2. RQDA icon
     14 likes

    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
    RQDA

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    RQDA Features

    1.  Automatic Tagging
    2.  Qualitative Data Analysis
    3.  Content analysis
    4.  Offline coding
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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.

    Negative commentJan 8, 2020
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    Unable to share files, import files and keep the formatting

    Negative commentFeb 4, 2020
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    • Most users think RQDA is a great NVivo alternative.

    • RQDA is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Voyant Tools icon
     5 likes

    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...

    19 Voyant Tools alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

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

    Voyant Tools Features

    1.  Interactive Visualization
    2.  Text Analytics
    3.  Embeddable
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    • Voyant Tools is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to NVivo.

    • Voyant Tools is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Taguette icon
     10 likes

    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
    20 Taguette alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

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

    Taguette Features

    1.  Linking to test cases & Issues
    2.  Web-Based
    3.  Qualitative Data Analysis
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  5. 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...

    20 CATMA alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online

    CATMA Features

    1.  Content analysis
    2.  Text Analytics
    3.  Qualitative Data Analysis
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  6. 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.

    12 AcademiaOS alternatives
    Automated Theory Construction

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online

    AcademiaOS Features

    1.  No Coding Required
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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.

    6 VOSviewer alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. AQUAD icon
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    Aquad helps you to analyze qualitative data (text, video, audio, images).

    20 AQUAD alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    AQUAD Features

    1.  Qualitative Data Analysis
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  9. 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.

    8 QDA Miner alternatives
    QDA Miner screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    QDA Miner Features

    1.  Qualitative Data Analysis
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  10. TAMS Analyzer icon
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    TAMS Analyzer is a program that works with TAMS to let you assign ethnographic codes to passages of a text just by selecting the relevant text and double clicking the name of the code on a list. It then allows you to extract, analyze, and save coded information.

    7 TAMS Analyzer alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac

    TAMS Analyzer Features

    1.  Qualitative Data Analysis
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  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
    A co-occurrence network created with KH Coder

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

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

    3 Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) alternatives
    Upload Raw Dataset

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Discontinued

    The website says that the application has been decommissioned, but the source code is still available to the public.

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