NVivo is a commercial software package for creating workspaces and corpuses. Its features include importing YouTube videos and comments, social media posts and discussions, web page and PDF capture, multiple language support and support for a wide variety of data formats such as spreadsheets, images, database tables and so on. Users can query their data in a variety of ways, annotate, cross-link and visualize connections, ideas and findings with charts, maps and models

MAXQDA is a commercial software package for facilitating qualitative and mixed methods research. It includes a graphical interface for organizing and categorizing data, and can import data in a wide variety of formats, including web formats, images, audio and video and spreadsheets. Data can be encoded in several ways, such as keywords, colours or symbols. It includes visualization and report generation.

Crawdad is a commercial software package for qualitative data analysis based on natural language processing. It generates a network model of a text and calculates word influence based on its position within the network. It also includes visualization, classification and comparator features. A trial version is available by request.

The Crawdad website is no longer maintained or available. It can still be viewed via the Internet Archive.

Ethnograph is a long-standing legacy software package, maintained into the present, for quantitative analysis and data management. It contains features for search, applying metadata and conducting corpus analysis.

RQDA is a free R package for qualitative analysis, developed specifically to analyze textual data. It is available for Windows, Linux/FreeBSD and Mac OS X. It currently requires texts to be in plain text format. RQDA supports non-English texts, and has been tested with Simplified Chinese in particular.

Qualrus is a commercial application for qualitative data analysis, including data coding and statistics functions. It can analyze data from a wide variety of sources, including common text, web, image, video and audio files. The data coding functions are supplemented by machine learning processes to assist data processing and analysis. In terms of analysis, it offers a number of common text analysis functions including tokenization, co-occurences, and Boolean search, and can visualize a network view of interrelationships. It is particularly aimed at academic and institutional applications, and both student and free trial versions are avaiable.

ANTHROPAC, now in version 4.98, is a long-standing menu-driven DOS program developed for working with anthropological and other cultural data. It assists both the collection and analysis of datasets, and can accommodate both qualitiative and quantitative information. ANTHROPAC includes analytic tools such as consensus analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis and correspondance analysis, in addition to data manipulation and transformation functions. It imports and exports data via ASCII formats, and includes an extensive reference manual, a user's guide and a methods guide tailored for cultural domain analysis.

SwiftRiver is a free, open source platform for filtering and processing large amounts of information. In particular, it can gather and filter data from common web sources such as email, Twitter or RSS. It also enables users to define 'buckets' according to their own criteria rather than relying on, for example, the information's social media popularity status. Utilizing a combination of filters and buckets, users create 'rivers' of data populated by their chosen sources. Developer Ushahidi has made all code available for general access via Github, though a custom, full-service, hosted version is available for a fee by contacting the company directly.

TAMS Analyzer is a program that works with TAMS to let you assign ethnographic codes to passages of a text just by selecting the relevant text and double clicking the name of the code on a list. It then allows you to extract, analyze, and save coded information.