The Best 16 NVivo Alternatives

  • Dedoose

    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...

    Commercial Web

  • MAXQDA

    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...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • ATLAS.ti

    ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. It offers a variety of sophisticated tools for...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Android iPad

  • Quirkos

    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...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Tablet

  • QDA Miner

    QDA Miner Lite is a free and easy-to-use version of our popular computer assisted qualitative analysis software. It can be used for the analysis of textual data such as...

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows

  • Plato

    PLATO is a computer application for Windows. It's a thinking tool disguised a database management system. Or the other way around, if you like. It's an...

    Commercial Windows

  • Transana

    Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT)

    Coding Analysis Toolkit (also known as CAT) helps to code raw datasets, annotate text, among other data analysis functions.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

  • TAMS Analyzer

    TAMS Analyzer is a program that works with TAMS to let you assign ethnographic codes to passages of a text just by selecting the relevant text and double clicking the...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X