Quirkos makes coding as quick and easy as possible by using ‘bubbles’ (a visual tool), it’s possible to collaborate and share, supports many international languages, can use a variety of sources including PDFs and Facebook posts and can create reports.ħ.

Quirkos: For £450/$575 for a commercial license, £410/$520 for a public sector license, or £240/$310 for an academic license. It is possible to import and export documents, allows comments to be added and uses boolean text searches for fast retrieval of codes and text.Ħ. QDA Miner: This software is free with limited functionality. It is easy to code and manage data, has visual tools, allows projects to merge, it’s possible to link documents and it can generate word frequency data.ĥ. for a student standard license, it is £73/$99 for two years. MAXQDA: MAXQDA is for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis and is available for students and PhD students.

After the first free month, it is £9/$12.95 per month for one user.Ĥ. It is easy to use and like NVivo, enables you to share and collaborate in a secure way. Dedoose: The most attractive feature is Dedoose’s accessibility. For a student license, this costs £65/$99 for two years and for a commercial license, a single license is £1,380/$1868.ģ. Atlas.ti: Atlas.ti allows you to work on many documents simultaneously and link them, has a range of options for the visual presentation of the data, can use geo-data and import online survey data.

However, it is expensive at £390/$700 for a new Starter Full License including optional extras, such as the online training course.Ģ. Not only can you use this software for qualitative analysis but doing literature review.

This has a wide range of features such as the options to integrate with social media, Evernote (one place to store ideas), EndNote (reference manager), SurveyMonkey and OneNote. NVivo 11: This is fairly easy and intuitive to use. Once you’ve collected data using interviews and focus groups, there are a number of tools you can use to analyse the data.ġ.

Qualitative tools for data analysis