Qualitative Analysis Software

Convert and work with projects created in software by QSR, Atlas.ti, MaxQDA and Framework.

Use NVivo for Windows to convert projects to NVivo for Mac format.

Reference Management Software

Import bibliographical data, notes and article attachments from reference management software: EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero.

Statistical Analysis Software

Import and export delimited text files and spreadsheets to and from applications like Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and IBM SPSS Stats.

Note-taking Software

Export notes directly from Evernote and OneNote and bring them into NVivo with the same structure set up in your note-taking software. Collect notes on-the-go using devices like tablets and phones, and then easily import data directly into NVivo via API.

OneNote Online

Online Survey Software

Import survey responses and demographic data directly from SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics. Supports SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics API and Generic Survey Formats.

Generic Survey Formats

Generic Formats

Collect, import and export data from web browsers, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel and text files in HTML, XML, CSV, XLS, XLSX and TXT formats.

Microsoft Excel, TXT, CSV

Transcription

Use NVivo Transcription to automatically create a transcript and sync it to the media file in your NVivo project.

Social Media

Collect data from people, organizations and groups published on Twitter, Facebook or Youtube.

Twitter, Facebook

Social Network Analysis

Build and analyze links between people or other entities. Visualize the connections between a population and derive further insight through network metrics. Supports PAJEK.

Organization

Create a paperless filing system allowing you to easily search, sort and access project items using Folders, Search Folders and Sets.

Folders, Sets

Transcription

Import an existing transcript, or create one within NVivo, and link to its corresponding audio or video file.

Reliability

Store your project data and material in a single file, making your project completely portable.

Security

Enhance security by protecting access to projects with User Profiles, User Passwords, User Permissions and Encoded Storage.

User Profiles, User Passwords, Encoded Storage

Scalability

Work with larger amounts of data in a single project (up to 10GB) or remove limits with NVivo for Teams.

512GB Project Files

Traceability

Keep track of what team members are doing by recording changes to a project with an audit log of user actions.

Recoverability

Explore your data with confidence knowing you can retrace your steps with multi-level undo and automatic back up and recovery of your data. Includes multiple levels of Undo, Project Repair, Project Restore, Automatic Backup (with NVivo for Teams).

Multiple levels of Undo for selected features

Coding

Categorize and classify data by theme or topic and analyze how items are connected using In-Vivo Coding, Thematic Hierarchical Coding, Relationship Coding and Region Coding.

In-Vivo Coding, Thematic Hierarchical Coding, Region Coding

Case Coding

Gather references to People, Places, Organizations and other entities and categorize and classify data to analyze the who, what and where questions.

Auto Coding by Structure

Automatically categorize structured information like interview responses contained in datasets or documents formatted with paragraph styles.

Automatic Coding of Datasets

Auto Coding by Speaker Name

Automatically categorize interview and focus group responses contained in documents.

Pattern-Based Auto Coding

Automatically categorize and classify data based on existing coding patterns.

Classifications

Assign Attributes like demographic data to Cases, or bibliographic data to Sources. Assign colours to Project Items and see them throughout your project in Charts, Models and other visual tools.

Annotations

Create editable notes to comment on selected content.

Annotations for Documents and PDFs

Memos

Record and store your insights, observations and interpretations and link them to the material you are analyzing using Memos for Project, Sources and Nodes.

Links

Apply 'see-also' links to note a comparison or to lay a trail of evidence. Use Hyperlinks to link to web pages and files outside of your project.

Hyperlinks

Framework Matrices

Use Framework Analysis to condense large volumes of data into a table summarizing the topics in your content.

Social Network Analysis

View Case Relationships and Social Media Interactions to explore social networks and answer questions about individuals' roles within a network, or study the network as a whole.

Automated Insights

Use Automated Analysis of Themes and Sentiment to automatically discover emerging themes and sentiment within your data in a matter of minutes.

Text Search Query

Query Words (and Stemmed Words), Phrases, or Concepts with AND, OR, NEAR operators to find an exact word match or words that are similar in meaning.

Querying Words (and Stemmed Words), or Phrases with AND, OR, NEAR operators

Coding Query

Explore and ask questions about your coding to find overlaps and intersections using operators like AND & OR.

Word Frequency Query

See a list of the words that appear most often within your materials by querying frequently occurring words or concepts.

Querying Frequently Occurring Words

Matrix Coding Query

Compare coded material across nodes, sets or attribute values by querying to Cross Tabulate Coding and/or Attributes.

Crosstab Query

Analyze themes by attributes or by cases for enhanced mixed methods research.

Find

Locate project items by Criteria, Find by Name, Find in Content and group Find results.

Find in Content

Reports

Use pre-defined reports or create your own using a Wizard. Save reports and share with others.

Coding Stripes

Use colored stripes to view and compare coding or demographic information in your data. View and print Coding Stripes for Nodes, Attributes and Users.

Display Coding Stripes for Nodes
Print nodes and documents including coding stripes

Charts

Create and explore Charts including Column, Pie and Bar charts. Range of Customizable Charts for Project Items and their Associations. New for Mac.

Word Clouds

A customizable visual representation of Word Frequency Queries that displays the most frequently appearing words in selected materials or nodes.

Cluster Analysis

Use a range of Cluster Analysis Diagrams such as Dendrograms, Circle Graphs and Cluster Maps to visualize similarities and differences in Sources and Nodes.

Word Trees

See the most frequently appearing words in selected materials and nodes, and explore the context surrounding the words.

Hierarchical Charts

Visualize hierarchical patterns and prominent themes in your data with treemap and sunburst charts.

Geovisualization

Map where your social media contributers are located, based on information provided in their user profiles.

Explore Diagrams

Visually explore project data through a dynamic diagram that shows connections between a central project item and its related project content. Step through the project items to reveal further connections.

Comparison Diagrams

Visually compare two Sources, Nodes or Cases to see what they have in common and where they differ.

Project Map

Explore and visually analyze the connections in your Project Items.

Concept Map

Freeform diagramming tool to represent concepts, ideas, and theories relating to your research project. Map out ideas, findings or theories and present them for sharing with others.

Mind Map

Brainstorm your ideas and visualize your thoughts. Quickly develop a project structure at the beginning of your project.

Egocentric Sociograms

Visualize how a particular central Case is connected to other Cases, and how those Cases are connected to each other.

Network Sociogram

Visualize the connections, or lack of connections, between a group of Cases.

Social Media Sociograms

Visualize Twitter datasets to see the network of Twitter users, and how they are connected by retweets and mentions.

Spelling Dictionary

Check spelling as you edit new and existing sources in NVivo in English (US, UK), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Mexico).

Data Language

Work with data in virtually any language including character based languages such as Japanese and Mandarin

Query Dictonary Language

Run Text Search and Word Frequency Queries in 7 languages: Chinese, English (US, UK), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

User Interface Language

English, French, German and Spanish (Mexico).

NVivo 12 for Windows: Work with a user interface in English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Mexico).

Merge Projects

Merge separate projects in to one project file.

Multi-User Projects

Allow team members to work in the same project at the same time and view each others changes immediately with NVivo for Teams.

Coding Comparison

View coding of different users and compare to discover the degree of agreement for coding between users.

Codebook

A report of your coding structure, including descriptions, to show team members and align coding practices. Export in Word or Excel format. Export and import Codebook Exchange format.

Accessibility

Adherence to accessibility guidelines like WCAG ICT with VoiceOver support including navigation and certain work areas.

Getting Started Tutorial

Get up and running fast with an introductory guide to learning fundamental tasks.

Online Help

Online Help that provides step-by-step instructions for working with every feature of NVivo.

Online Tutorials

Step-by-step animated online video tutorials that demonstrate how to use NVivo.

Sample Project

Provides a 'real-life' sample project that can be used as an example to explore how to organize data, and experiment with queries, visualizations and other analysis tools.

System Administrator Help

In-depth technical resources for System Administrators.

Community Resources

Learn and communicate with peers and our Customer Support team in online social communities: User Forum, Facebook, LinkedIn User Group, Twitter, YouTube, Blog.

Update Notifications

Receive automatic notifications when new updates are available to download and install.