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CATMA is a free tool for computer-assisted text markup and analysis, with workflows for qualitative or quantitative work, exploratory or taxonomy-led study, and individual or team projects. Users can upload corpora, share projects, build tagsets, annotate overlapping passages, and explore results through word clouds, distribution graphs, and Double Tree. Text, TEI-XML, and CSV exports, plus Git, GitMA, and JSON API access, give projects several routes out of the application. CATMA is designed for qualitative text studies, especially literary research, rather than massive-scale statistical text mining.
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spaCy
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1Production NLP pipelines and large-volume text processing — spaCy adds production-oriented NLP pipelines, trained language models, and custom model workflows, while CATMA centers on annotation and interpretive text analysis.
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Taguette
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2Qualitative tagging with broad document imports and exports — Taguette focuses on importing and tagging documents with project and highlight exports, while CATMA adds overlapping annotations and interactive analysis visualizations.
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Voyant Tools
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Digital humanities text exploration and offline corpus analysis — Voyant Tools emphasizes corpus exploration through a varied analysis workspace and offline VoyantServer, while CATMA supports tagsets and overlapping annotations.
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KH Coder
Free plan Open source LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1Quantitative content analysis with offline statistical workflows — KH Coder focuses on quantitative content analysis, text mining, and statistical visualizations, whereas CATMA is designed for qualitative text studies.
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MAXQDA
Free trial ExtensionMacWeb+1Mixed-methods research with statistics and team collaboration — MAXQDA adds mixed-methods and statistical analysis options, transcription, and TeamCloud collaboration; CATMA is free and focuses on text markup and analysis.
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QualCoder
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsQualitative coding across text, images, audio, and video — QualCoder extends qualitative coding to images, audio, and video and offers optional AI features, while CATMA concentrates on text annotation and analysis.
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Transana
Free trial MacWindowsMultimedia qualitative analysis with transcription tools — Transana supports qualitative analysis of video, audio, images, text, PDFs, and surveys, while CATMA focuses on text markup and analysis.
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Condens
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DiscoverText
Free plan APIWeb - 10
Dovetail
Free plan APIWeb - 11
TextAnalyzer
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TextDescriptives
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Dedoose
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ATLAS.ti
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Leximancer
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Quirkos
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Delve
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Keatext
Free trial Web - 19
Quid (formerly NetBase Quid)
Free trial APIWeb - 20
Speakerbox
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CallMiner Eureka
Paid APIWeb - 22
Chattermill
Paid APIWeb - 23
Relative Insight
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webQDA
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Kapiche
Paid APIWeb
Its web app requires a stable internet connection, and touch-device annotation is unsupported. CATMA Standalone offers local or private-network use, but defaults to single-user operation and may need extra configuration for some features. Hosted data is not encrypted at rest, so CATMA advises against uploading sensitive material. When comparing alternatives, weigh whether you need document or media coding, broader text-mining tools, offline analysis, different export formats, or paid features such as statistics and team collaboration. Also consider operating systems, deployment, and whether a tool's workflow matches your research rather than simply replacing CATMA's annotation model.