The Ethnograph Alternatives

The Ethnograph is described as 'Software for qualitative research and data analysis, facilitates the management and analysis of text based data such as transcripts of interviews, focus groups, field notes, diaries, meeting minutes, and other documents' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Ethnograph for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best The Ethnograph alternative is Voyant Tools, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Ethnograph 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 The Ethnograph.

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

    • Voyant Tools is Free and Open SourceThe Ethnograph 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. ATLAS.ti icon

    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 The Ethnograph.

    • ATLAS.ti is Paid and ProprietaryThe Ethnograph is also Paid and Proprietary
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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. RQDA icon

    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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  9. 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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  10. Wired-Marker icon

    Wired-Marker

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    Wired-Marker is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. The highlighter, which comes in various colors and styles, is a kind of electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a Web page.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox
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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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    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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    Best in qual/quant research and data analysis, in the cloud, cross platform etc... it's data analysis software that actually lives in the current century!

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    • Dedoose is Paid and ProprietaryThe Ethnograph is also Paid and Proprietary
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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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