OpenQDA Alternatives

OpenQDA is described as 'Open-source collaborative qualitative data analysis software' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are nine alternatives to OpenQDA for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Web-based, Linux and SaaS apps. The best OpenQDA alternative is QualCoder, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenQDA are ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, Magnolia and RQDA.

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  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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. ATLAS.ti icon
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    Research software offers AI-powered data importation and analysis, free 200 million AI paper library access, ensuring insights and transparent AI results across all platforms.

    37 ATLAS.ti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  3. MAXQDA icon
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    MAXQDA for Windows and Mac is a professional software for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis. The world leading software (since 1989) helps thousands of researchers world wide do successful research.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. Magnolia icon
     1 like

    Magnolia is free and open-source qualitative data analysis software released under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). It is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It writes the open REFI-QDA standard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. QDAcity icon
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    QDAcity emerged from a research project within the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg at the professorship for open source software which started in 2014.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  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
     
  8.  Like

    QCAmap is an open access web application for systematic text analysis in scientific projects based on the techniques of qualitative content analysis (Mayring, 2022).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. LibreQDA icon
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    An open-source web-based tool for qualitative data analysis.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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