ATLAS.ti vs Voyant Tools
ATLAS.ti
atlasti.comVoyant Tools
voyant-tools.orgSide by side
| Figure | ATLAS.ti | Voyant Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Analysis Software | 7.7 (#8) | 7.5 (#12) |
| Spec score · Text Analytics Software | 7.7 (#15) | 7.5 (#21) |
| Purpose | ATLAS.ti is qualitative data analysis software for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing research data. | Voyant Tools is a web-based environment for reading and analyzing digital texts, designed for digital humanities students and scholars as well as the general public. |
| Support | The company advertises free support 24/5 from qualitative data experts and ATLAS.ti specialists. | The project directs users to its GitHub issue tracker to report bugs and request features. |
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In their own words
Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a text-analysis environment for reading digital texts and building corpora from pasted text, URLs, existing collections, or uploaded files. It can extract text from HTML, Word, Excel, ODT, Pages, PDF, plain text, RTF, and XML. The default workspace brings together Cirrus, Reader, Trends, Summary, and Contexts, with more tools for examining terms, collocates, phrases, and related patterns. You can bookmark and share corpus URLs, and a corpus generally stays accessible when someone accesses it at least once a month. Voyant can also be embedded in another site with an iframe. The hosted service stores submitted texts for persistent access and logs tool activity, parameters, and IP addresses; it also uses Google Analytics. For offline work, VoyantServer runs locally, requires Java 11, and does not cache work on Voyant’s server. Voyant handles Unicode text in almost any language, though it has little language-specific functionality for semantic analysis. It is open source under GPL3, with the web application and documentation under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The plan is free.