Comments by MAXQDA Users
What makes MAXQDA so special?
Why are MAXQDA users in the whole world so happy with their choice of QDA-Software? It is the structured interface, the competent service or the intuitiv usability. Please find a few testimonials of our costumers below.
Or you can look at this list of MAXQDA users all around the world.
What our users appreciate about working with MAXQDA:
- “The intuitive approach which MAXQDA has built up is so similar to the discovering process of categories and types that code book and memo system is always there to help you to develop your theory and models. The add-modules MAXDictio and MAXMaps are straightforward and provide the best elegant and smart solution to represent complex relations between projects’ elements and several functions to analize in diferent ways the lexical componenents of the entire texts.”César A. Cisneros Puebla, Professor in Qualitative Methods Research in Sociology Department, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City, Editor of Spanish version of Forum of Qualitative Social Research
- “Having worked with MAXQDA 10 a bit more now, I can honestly say that I find MAXQDA by far the best CAQDAS program around. Brilliant work!” (Ko Koens, International Centre for Responsible Tourism, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
- “Congratulations to Verbi software! MAXQDA 2007, MaxMaps and MAxDictio offer a sophisticated, yet easy to use toolkit for qualitative analysts working with textual data. No need to learn a complex language or interface. MAXQDA 2007 invites the user to use color and other visual tools to guide an analysis. The code relations and code matrix browser outline relations that result from coding. Using MAXQDA allows you to focus on your data and your reactions to it.”(President of Research Talk, Raymond Maietta)
- “Easy to learn and very efficient to use. Thanks to the elegant and straightforward design of MAXQDA2, you can easily translate flashes of insights into descriptive and theoretical codes, analytical models in the form of hierarchical code system, and various types of memos, without being bothered by complicated technicalities. You can also carry out more fine-grained analyses of qualitative data with the help of its advanced options, including MAXDictio and MAXMaps. Simply the best of all QDA software.”(Ikuya Sato, Professor of Sociology and Organizational Science, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Japan, Tokyo)
- “What I like about MAXQDA is its ease of use (a low learning curve), the depth and breadth of its classifiaction and analysis functions, and the possibiltiy of conducting different kinds of qualitative or texts analysis simultaneously. In addition, the combined strength of MAXQDA MAXDictio expands the researcher’s capacity to manage and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. Your programs are true friends of the researcher who values qualitative and quantitative or mixed-method research.”(Warren A. Hodge, Ph.D., University of North Florida, Department of Counseling and Educational Leadership)
- “The ability to easily import string and numeric selection variables provides an invaluable tool for relating complementary quantitative and qualitative research strategies. This and other features have made MAXQDA particularly well-suited for integrating ethnographic and epidemiological methods for a cultural epidemiology of various health problems.”(Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel)
- “MAXQDA was essential in completing the analysis for my dissertation. The weighting, color coding, and ability to move groups of coded segments made the analytical process much easier than other methods I’ve used in the past. I have shown the program to a number of other doctoral students and they were amazed at the ease of use and flexibility of the program. Most of them wanted to know why this software is not mentioned in research classes. […]. I absolutely LOVE this program and will use it in my professional life as well to analyze focus group information, complaint data, etc. […]. I am sure that I have only begun to tap the power of this program. I highly recommend it for anyone who is doing qualitative research and has to analyze transcripts, documents, etc.”(Cheryl Fliege, Walden University, USA)
- “I found MAXQDA extremely easy to use. I am basically using it for data management, and I do not know how I ever would have managed everything without it! […].”(Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University, USA)
- “[…] The coding margin is especially useful, showing which codes are assigned to which pieces of text. Being able to colour the code icon also helps give a very quick overview of coding to a document. The memo margin/column also provides easy access to memos assigned to text in a specific document. The code matrix and code relations browsers are very useful to give another overview of coding and relationships between codes, and are useful tables for inserting into manuscripts and reports. The search tools are easy to use and make logical sense when you get the hang of them, and assigning attributes is easy. Ordering codes by weight was extremely useful in research where this was applicable. Those codes deemed most important using the data and team consensus could be assigned a weight and used in a very grounded way to show trends, develop narratives and so on. […]”(Raewyn Bassett, Dalhousie University, Canada)
- “I am using MAXQDA for my PhD Thesis. I think it is a fantastic versatile system – the ability to retrieve segments and keep them situated within their text is so useful.”(Thomson, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
- “The application is easy to learn and use, a particular advantage to non-technical users.”(Kirstie Edwards, Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
- “I have found MAXQDA very easy to use. It was especially useful being able to purchase copies in various languages as we were working on a multi-site project through Europe. In particular the ability to have multiple levels of coding was useful as was the code matrix. […]”(Wendy Hunter, Deakin University, Australia)
- “Since MAXQDA is the only qualitative data analysis software that I have used, I can’t compare it to other programs. However, I did think that it was quite easy to familiarize with and I LOVED the autosave feature because I constantly worry about saving my work and having backup!”(Janet Arcara, Emory University, UK)
- “MAXQDA is a very easy piece of software to use and has made analysis an enjoyable and rewarding experience.”(Julie Clark, Thames Valley University, UK)
- “I used MAXQDA to code and analysis case study data (documents and qualitative interviews). MAXQDA made that process much more manageable and easy as it was a large scale project and included over 50 hours of interviews as well as media and policy documents. Having all that material in one file/coding system was very useful. It was also useful as we could save that material on a shared computer drive as the authors were based in different locations during the research.”(Bernie Grummell, UCD)
- “MAXQDA is very easy to navigate, to code small or large pieces of text, to add and delete codes, and to keep track of exactly what you’ve done. I like being able to open only those screens I want to work with and close those I don’t. The weighting function has been unexpectedly useful to us.”(Ellen Pruyne, Lancaster University, UK)
- “I have had a very good experience with MAXqda. […]”(Jennifer Lasley, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, USA)
- “Very easy to get up and running with the program. Have shared it with doctoral students.”(Jenny Edwards, Fielding Graduate University; USA)
- “User guide very explicit and explanatory. Overall, a great program for data organization and efficient retrieval of quotes. […]”(Lisa Baker, Liverpool Women’s Hospital; UK)
- “It has been great to use MAXQDA. Easy to follow and very useful! It was great to be able to easily pull out quotes with the same codes and view them all at once across different texts.”(Joanna Sweetland, Institute of Neurology, London, UK)
- “[…] The new version is very helpful and it offered me all the facilities I required. Being able to correct transcripts is good; memos worked well; and being able to copy and drop things into word is good. Frequencies are also another good feature, as is the weighting. The manual is very helpful. Also being able to change codes is an improvement on earlier versions.”(John Harland, LC Research, UK)
Here is some feedback concerning our service
- Service: “Service was terrific! I received answers quickly. Even with the time delay between Germany and the United States, I experienced virtually no delays in work when I had questions.”(Cheryl Fliege, Walden University, USA)
- Service: “The service was excellent. I was very pleased with the personal attention that I received when trying to decide if MAXQDA2 was the appropriate program for my project. When I decided to purchase MAXQDA2, I was given all the personal attention I needed for getting started. It was all very personal, efficient, and professional. […].”(Daniel Lund, Griffith University, Australia)
- Service: “The service I have received has been swift and very good.”(Daniel Nehring, University of Essex, Department of Sociology, UK)
- Service: “The service has been fantastic – very professional, with all queries answered within a very short period of time.”(Thomson, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
- Service: “[…], extremely fast, very friendly, perfectly helpful.”(Stef Van den Branden, Interdisciplinary Centre for Religious Studies, Belgium)
- Service: “WOW! That was a quick response! Thanks. Before being a student I had worked in the software industry for almost 20 years in Europe and in Asia, and I have never met this level of EXCELLENT service. CONGRATULATIONS. This is remarkable.” (Kevin-James Vella, Doctoral Candidate of Cardiff Business School)

