RQDA Alternatives

RQDA is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to RQDA for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted. The best RQDA alternative is Voyant Tools, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RQDA are QualCoder, ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA and NVivo.

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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 Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to RQDA.

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

    • Voyant Tools is Free and Open SourceRQDA is also Free and Open Source
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    A continuation using Python of RQDA.

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    • QualCoder is Free and Open SourceRQDA is also Free and Open Source
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    ATLAS.ti

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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.

    27 ATLAS.ti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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    • ATLAS.ti is the most popular commercial alternative to RQDA.

    • ATLAS.ti is Paid and ProprietaryRQDA is Free and Open Source
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    MAXQDA

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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.

    25 MAXQDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. NVivo icon

    NVivo

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    Software for qualitative data analysis in every setting - from market research to content analysis and evaluation. QSR International’s products: XSight and NVivo are designed to help researchers and other people analyzing audio, video, photos, Word documents and PDF documents to...

    29 NVivo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Taguette icon

    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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    Taguette is a basic and easy to use CAQDA that can be also used storing some projects on the Internet.

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    • Taguette is Free and Open SourceRQDA is also Free and Open Source
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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
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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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    Quirkos

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Very user friendly, but limited to text for now. Good visualisation of basic functions. Excellent support.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Quirkos is Paid and ProprietaryRQDA is Free and Open Source
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    Dedoose

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    Dedoose was designed from the ground up—by researchers, for researchers—to meet the needs of today’s social scientists working in academia, marketing, and education—virtually anyone looking for innovative software to facilitate the search for answers to research questions via...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Annotations for Mac

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    "Adding and managing notes to texts simplified".

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    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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