| Name | Full Name | Notes |
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| AQUAD | Analysis of qualitative data | ✓ Open source software for qualitative coding and qualitative content analysis 🗙 Only available for Windows |
| ATLAS.ti | Archiv für Technik, Lebenswelt und Alltagssprache (Archive for Technology, Lifeworld and Everyday Language).text interpretation | ✓ Supports textual, graphical, audio and video data 🗙 Only available for Windows/Mac 🗙 Proprietary software, no FOSS version available |
| AutoMap | Extract, Analyze and Represent Relational Data from Texts | ✓ Text mining tool for working with unstructured text 🗙 Only handles text files |
| Axiis | ✓ Open source data visualization framework 🗙 Out-of-date / relies on Flash technology 🗙 Hosted on (now defunct) Google Code |
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| Cassandre | ✓ Libre software platform for qualitative and collaborative analysis 🗙 Does not handle thematic analysis or multimedia |
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| CAT | Coding Analysis Toolkit | ✓ Free, open source, cloud computing platform ✓ Web-based collaborative manual text categorization and analysis 🗙 Unmaintained; decommissioned as of 2020 |
| CATMA | Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis | ✓ Open source tool for text researchers 🗙 Works only with text |
| CLAN | Computerized Language ANalysis | ✓ Designed specifically to analyze data transcribed in the CHAT format (used in the various segments of the TalkBank system) 🗙 Works only with video and video transcripts |
| Dedoose | ✓ Cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data and more 🗙 Commercial web-app, no FOSS version available, cannot be run locally with sensitive data |
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| Ethno | ✓ Java program for analysis of sequential actions 🗙 No longer available |
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| FreeQDA | ✓ Software for professional qualitative research data analysis, such as interviews, manuscripts, journal articles, memos and field notes 🗙 Unmaintained; has not been updated in 7 years |
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| GATE | General Architecture for Text Engineering | ✓ Open source software toolkit for text processing 🗙 Only handles text |
| NVivo | ✓ Supports images, audio, video, and text 🗙 Only available on Windows/Mac 🗙 Proprietary software; no FOSS version available |
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| qdap | Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package | ✓ R package to assist in quantitative discourse analysis 🗙 Only works with text |
| QualCoder | ✓ Open licensed qualitative data analysis software ✓ Supports coding images, video, text ✓ Reports coding associations 🗙 Only supports tagging image regions and segments of video |
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| RQDA | R Qualitative Data Analysis | ✓ R package for Qualitative Data Analysis 🗙 Only supports text |
| Taguette | ✓ Free and open source qualitative analysis software ✓ Supports PDFs, Word documents, and text files 🗙 Does not support image files, video, citations, code weighting analysis, tag clouds, associative tags |
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| tamsys | Text Analysis Markup System | ✓ Open source analysis system 🗙 Cross platform version only supports text 🗙 Unmaintained, last updated in 2004 |
| TXM | Textométrie | ✓ Modular platform for textometry 🗙 Only handles text |
| VOSviewer | Visualization of Similarities Viewer | ✓ Tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks 🗙 Only works with citations |
| Weft QDA | ✓ Easy-to-use, free and open-source tool for the analysis of textual data such as interview transcripts, fieldnotes and other documents 🗙 Unmaintained, latest version from 2006 |
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| Yoshikoder | ✓ Cross-platform multilingual content analysis program 🗙 Unmaintained; has not been updated since 2015 🗙 Focus on content analysis; only works with text |