The #1 software for reviewing literature with the best AI integration
MAXQDA streamlines your review process with powerful analysis tools, ease of use, and smart AI integration. Explore the possibilities now.
Why MAXQDA Is a Smart Choice for Literature Reviews
Thanks to the self-explaining interface, you will quickly find your way around. Numerous tutorials, guides, and webinars, as well as an active community, help you dive deeper into MAXQDA.
One license, two operating systems. The identical interface and functions make teamwork and teaching with MAXQDA easy. Decide flexibly what you want to work with.
MAXQDA AI Assist and MAXQDA Tailwind allow you to access to advanced AI-driven functions. Enhance your research while maintaining the highest standards of data protection and control over your analytical work.
Every feature in MAXQDA is purpose-built, tested, and applied to state-of-the-art research workflows before it is brought to you.
MAXQDA constantly gets better. Every 2-3 months, we release updates adding new tools and improving features for you. Our software keeps you always one step ahead in your research.
Stunning visualisations, the convenient report generator and your QTT workspace to integrate your results make MAXQDA the best choice for fast report-ready data.
Trusted by leading institutions and businesses
Having used several qualitative data analysis software programs, there is no doubt in my mind that MAXQDA has advantages over all the others. In addition to its remarkable analytical features for harnessing data, MAXQDA’s stellar customer service, online tutorials, and global learning community make it a user friendly and top-notch product.Sally S. Cohen NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
I spent several months researching the options, and ultimately decided to trial MAXQDA. We brought in a MAXQDA certified trainer, and bought a network license so that our large team at Microsoft could use the tool. We were not disappointed[…] I was so convinced in its efficacy in the applied qualitative field that I bought MAXQDA for my team when I joined Amazon. I was especially delighted when they added the Stats package, which allows us to avoid the extra expense of buying SPSS.Sam Ladner, Ph.D. Former Senior Principal Researcher at Workday
I have been fascinated by qualitative research as it makes us reconsider reality from a new perspective. For such reconsideration, it is essential to read data from various viewpoints and write your ideas in notes and memos, continuing to renew your perspective. I have found MAXQDA to be an excellent tool for readily recording and organizing ideas that come up with at various stages of research […]. More than that, however, I feel the potential of MAXQDA is to promote dialogue within the researcher and facilitate new discoveries.Masahiro Nochi Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo
Understanding and analyzing production and work processes – that’s an important part of my work at Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF and MAXQDA supports me in this. MAXQDA convinced me with its versatility, the intuitive design and the ability to work together in a team across the board. In our interdisciplinary projects with innovative companies, we can thus achieve an effective and efficient way of working.Sebastian Häberer, M.Sc. Expert Engineer, Fraunhofer IFF
With MAXQDA I saved a lot of time coding my research interviews, and with the Visual Tools I was able to show the results in a clear and simple way. MAXQDA has the advantage that it is very intuitive and therefore easy to learn and handle. In addition, they listen to users and provide continuous updates to improve the experience.Luis Daniel Vazquez Cancino PhD candidate in Architecture from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Reviewing Literature is Faster and Smarter with MAXQDA
MAXQDA makes reviewing literature faster and easier than ever before. It offers a wide range of tools for organizing, coding, searching, and analyzing your sources, notes, PDFs, articles, e-books, and bibliographic data. Its user-friendly 4-Window Interface provides quick access to powerful tools and functions, streamlining the review process. Additionally, MAXQDA is 100% identical on Windows and Mac, providing a consistent and seamless experience.
All-in-one Software for Your Review
MAXQDA is a flexible tool for managing and analyzing your review project. With MAXQDA, you can easily import a wide range of materials such as text, PDFs, web pages, spreadsheets, articles, e-books, bibliographic data, videos, audio files, and even social media data. Organize your sources into groups, link relevant quotes to each other, use MAXQDA’s powerful tools to facilitate your analysis, and share and compare work with your team members. The project file stays flexible allowing you to expand and refine your category system as you go, ensuring your review is tailored to your needs.
User-Friendly Tools for Coding Sources
Utilize a variety of tools such as codes, colors, symbols, and emoticons to mark important information in your sources. With MAXQDA, you can create codes with just one click and apply them quickly via drag & drop. The software’s Text Search tools allow you to explore your material without coding or reading it first. You can also search for keywords and automatically code them with just a few clicks. Organize your thoughts and theories in memos that can be linked to any element of your project. Retrieve your coded segments with one click or use MAXQDA’s powerful summary tools to review and develop new insights. Make the most of your time with MAXQDA
Organize Your Sources with MAXQDA’s Memo Tools
As you review your sources, MAXQDA allows you to capture ideas and insights by creating memos to store research questions, objectives, and paraphrasing passages into your own words. The software’s memo feature also allows for easy creation of audit trails by attaching memos like post-it notes to text passages, texts, document groups, images, audio/video clips, and codes. With the unique MAXQDA memo manager and lexical search function, you have immediate access to every single memo at any time, making it easy to stay organized and on top of your research. With MAXQDA, your source organization is made simple.
AI Assist: MAXQDA meets AI
AI Assist – your virtual research assistant – supports your work with various tools. Besides automatic transcription of audio and video recordings in different languages, AI Assist simplifies your work by automatically analyzing and summarizing elements of your research project and by generating suggestions for subcodes. No matter which AI tool you use – you can customize your results to suit your needs.
