A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 286 tools used in corpus compilation and analysis.
This list is kept up to date by its users. Hence, please feel free to contribute by suggesting new tools.
You can also make suggestions, e.g., corrections, regarding individual tools by clicking the ✎ symbol. As this is a non-commercial side (side, side) project, checking and incorporating updates usually takes some time.
There is also a comprehensive list of all tags in the database.
| Tool | Description | Tags | Platforms | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATLAS.ti ✎ | A sophistaticated QDA software for mixed methods approaches | qda, mixed methods | Windows, Mac, Android, iOS | Commercial |
| f4analyse ✎ | QDA software specifically geared towards interview (spoken) data | qda, spoken | Windows, Mac, Linux | Commercial |
| Leipzig Corpus Miner ✎ | A modern text mining infrastructure for qualitative data analysis | qda, mixed methods, text mining, lexicometrics, topic models, information retrieval | Linux, Windows, Mac (via VM) | Free |
| MAXQDA ✎ | Sophisticated QDA software that works with multimodal data and supports mixed methods approaches | qda, mixed methods | Windows, Mac, Android, iOS | Commercial |
| NVIVO ✎ | A commercial Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) software that works with both qualitative and mixed methods data | qda, mixed methods | Windows, Mac | Commercial |
| Pipoca (formerly openQDA) ✎ | A web-based QDA software | qda, mixed methods | Web | Free, Open Source |
| QDA Miner ✎ | A commercial QDA tool for coding, annotating, retrieving and analyzing collections of documents and images. | qda, mixed methods, text analysis | Windows | Commercial |
| QualCoder ✎ | QualCoder is free, open source software for qualitative data analysis. | qda, text analysis | Linux, Mac, Windows | Free, Open Source |
| RDQA ✎ | An R package for Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA). | qda | Windows, Linux/FreeBSD, Mac | Free |
| QualCoder ✎ | An open source tool for qualitative data analysis that supports coding text and images. | qda, annotation | Windows, Mac, Linux, Python | Free, Open Source |
Last Updated: July 04, 2025.
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