CATMA vs Qualitati

CATMA is a free tool for computer-assisted text markup and analysis, designed for qualitative text studies, especially literary studies. Users can upload corpora, share projects, create tagsets, and apply overlapping annotations. Work can be exploratory or taxonomy-based, qualitative or quantitative, and individual or collaborative. Its Analyze module provides interactive visualizations such as word clouds, distribution graphs, and Double Tree. The web application runs in common browsers on macOS, Windows, or Linux and needs a stable internet connection. CATMA Standalone can run on a local machine or private network, including settings without internet access. Projects can be exported as text, TEI-XML, or CSV; data is also accessible through Git, the GitMA Python package, or the JSON API. The hosted service stores data in Germany and makes automatic backups at least daily. CATMA says its server data is not encrypted at rest, though off-site backups are encrypted, and advises against uploading sensitive data. Standalone defaults to single-user use; some features need additional configuration or are unavailable.

Qualitati is a web-based qualitative research platform for universities and research companies. Its AI moderator runs text or voice interviews and adapts follow-up questions to each participant. Live AI-moderated focus groups can probe responses, invite quieter participants, check consensus, and counter groupthink; synthetic groups are available for exploratory research. Conversational surveys use AI follow-ups and branching logic and are unlimited across pricing tiers. For analysis, ThemeLens can process up to 100 transcripts at once and synthesize themes with quotes tied to participants. The QDA Workspace supports inductive and deductive coding, codebook generation, and theme visualization. Voice Analytics extracts acoustic features such as pitch, loudness variability, speech rate, and voice quality, then generates managerial insights. Listed interview languages include English, Chinese, French, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. The site says transcription uses ElevenLabs Scribe v2 in each listed language, including Mandarin. Plans range from a free tier with 30 monthly credits to paid plans from €9 per month; Team costs €99 per month, while Organizations pricing is custom. The site advertises GDPR safeguards and 256-bit encryption.