CATMA vs Taguette
CATMA
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| Figure | CATMA | Taguette |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Qualitative Data Analysis Software | 9.0 (#1) | 7.6 (#13) |
| Spec score · Text Analytics Software | 9.0 (#2) | 7.7 (#16) |
| Spec score · Text Analysis Software | 8.9 (#2) | 7.6 (#10) |
| Collaboration | Projects support synchronized and latest-contributions viewing modes, roles, permissions and collaborative comments. | Users can collaborate on projects when using the hosted service or a self-hosted server; desktop mode is single-user. |
| Exports | CATMA documents, annotations, tagsets, metadata and identities can be exported, including through TEI-XML. | Taguette can export projects, codebooks, highlights, and highlighted documents in formats including QDC, CSV, XLSX, DOCX, HTML, and PDF, depending on the export. |
| Intended users | CATMA describes itself as designed for qualitative text studies, with a focus on literary studies, rather than massive-scale quantitative or statistical text mining. | The maker describes Taguette as a tool for qualitative research, including fields such as anthropology, education, nursing, psychology, sociology, and marketing. |
| Purpose | CATMA supports computer-assisted text markup and analysis, including annotation, analysis, interpretation, and visualization. | Taguette is a free, open-source qualitative research tool for importing materials, highlighting and tagging text, and exporting results. |
| Support | The FAQ asks users who need help to contact the CATMA team, which says it will respond as soon as possible. | Users can request help by email or submit GitLab issues, and the maker notes that the team does not work on Taguette full-time. |
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In their own words
CATMA
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.
Taguette
Taguette is a free, open-source tool for qualitative research that lets users import documents, mark passages, assign tags, and export coded material. It accepts PDF, DOCX, TXT, HTML, EPUB, MOBI, ODT, and RTF files. Users can create tags, apply several tags to selected text, and merge tags. Depending on the export, projects, codebooks, highlights, and highlighted documents can be saved in QDC, CSV, XLSX, DOCX, HTML, or PDF formats. Taguette can be used on Windows or macOS, installed on Linux with pip, or set up as a server using Docker or a native installation. Desktop mode is single-user, while the hosted service and self-hosted servers support project collaboration. The maker says local data stays on the user's machine and project contents can be exported. The hosted service reports daily encrypted backups and says it does not share or sell user data, but its FAQ advises against uploading sensitive records such as patient or student information. Intended fields include anthropology, education, nursing, psychology, sociology, and marketing.