Open Source NVivo Alternatives

The best open source alternative to NVivo is Voyant Tools. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NVivo and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to NVivo are QualCoder, RQDA, Taguette and KH Coder.

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  1. Voyant Tools icon

    Voyant Tools

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Voyant Tools is the most popular Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to NVivo.

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

    • Voyant Tools is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
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    QualCoder

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    RQDA

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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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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

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    • Most users think RQDA is a great NVivo alternative.

    • RQDA is Free and Open SourceNVivo is Paid and Proprietary
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    Taguette

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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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  6. KH Coder icon

    KH Coder

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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
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  7. VOSviewer

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) icon

    Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT)

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    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
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    CATMA

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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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    AcademiaOS

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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

    Platforms

    • Online
    Automated Theory Construction
     
  12. TAMS Analyzer icon

    TAMS Analyzer

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    AQUAD

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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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