NVivo Alternatives for Linux

NVivo is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Voyant Tools, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NVivo and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to NVivo are QualCoder, RQDA, Taguette and Provalis Research.

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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
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    • 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.

    29 QualCoder alternatives

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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.

    26 RQDA alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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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.
    • 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
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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
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  6.  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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  7. 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
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  8. Quirkos icon
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    Quirkos is a software package that helps people sort, manage and understand large amounts of text. It helps users tag or code relevant sections of text, and collate and compare themes across dozens of different text sources.

    21 Quirkos alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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  9. HyperResearch is a qualitative data analysis tool that helps users code and analyse diverse media sources including audio, video, images and text. It can generate reports, sort data, and build theory. For both Mac, Windows, and Linux in WINE.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. f4analyse icon
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    Qualitative Data Analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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