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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.

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  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac  It needs Python3, VLC and the following modules using Python: pyqt5, lxml, pandas, plotly, pillow, pydub, six ebooklib, ply, chardet, pdfminer.six, SpeechRecognition
  • Windows  Needs python3.6 or higher, pyqt6 lxml Pillow ebooklib ply chardet pdfminer.six openpyxl pandas plotly pydub SpeechRecognition
  • Linux  Needs python3.6 or higher, pyqt6 lxml Pillow ebooklib ply chardet pdfminer.six openpyxl pandas plotly pydub SpeechRecognition
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  1.  Qualitative Data Analysis
  2.  Content analysis
  3.  Offline coding
  4.  Community-based
  5.  Automatic Tagging

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QualCoder information

  • Developed by

    Colin Curtain
  • Licensing

    Open Source (LGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    22 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish

GitHub repository

  •  423 Stars
  •  92 Forks
  •  19 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 19, 2025 
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about QualCoder, and it has gotten 8 likes

QualCoder was added to AlternativeTo by omarbautistag on Aug 3, 2020 and this page was last updated Nov 7, 2022.

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Guest
  
Top positive commentAug 17, 2022

Nice open-source software, but interface could be better.

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Geo Ambo
  
Positive commentJan 14, 2022

Nice to see this open-source alternative to commercial QDA applications. It functions fairly well for basic projects. It is developing quickly and in a few years could be a very serious tool for qualitative analysis. Let's hope that more people get involved and support the development of QualCoder.

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Guest
  
Positive commentJul 23, 2021

great open source and multi platform qda software. while still needing a bit of work it is already usable.

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Guest
  
Positive commentMar 28, 2021

The software is efficient and powerful to perform the content analysis task. It allows you to follow the categories and classifications clearly. Facilitates thematic analysis. It is an excellent technology to implement a qualitative methodology. It is a 100% recommended software.

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superluminar
  
ReviewFeb 27, 2021

Currently the open source qualitative data analysis software that is most easy to use. Still, the interface is a bit cumbersome. Watch a demo on youtube or have a look at the manual to get started.

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omarbautistag
  
Positive commentJul 31, 2020

This software continues the work done with RQDA using multimedia data as pictures, audio and videos. And is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

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What is QualCoder?

A very complete free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) written in Python. It works with text, images, and multimedia as audios and videos. It prepares a matrix for qualitative comparison and offers a network view of the coding and categories.

It has been developed on Ubuntu and works on Debian-based and other Linux distros (Fedora, Arch). Works on Microsoft Windows 10. It has been used on MacOS.

QualCoder can import/export files in a diverse range of formats.

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