Issue Discovery is a tool for extracting the most prominent words and phrases from user-supplied URLs, texts or Issuecrawler XML result files. It is designed as a heuristic for data exploration rather than as an empirical tool.

Data Desk is a commercial application for data exploration, analysis and visualization available for both OS X and Windows systems. It uses a graphical user interface to provide numerous tools for working with data, and can generate several distinct views. Notably, the program is designed from an exploratory rather than inferential analysis perspective. An academic license is available for users with a .edu email address; academic users without a .edu address can purchase by contacting Data Description, Inc. directly. A trial license is also available.