Quirkos 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Quirkos

4.6

(11)

Pricing

Starting at $6.00 per month

About Quirkos

Quirkos is a qualitative data analysis software that provides users with the tools to tag and code qualitative text data in a more engaging and intuitive way. The codes can be seen being written in real-time allowing for trends and patterns to be identified by users.

Quirkos is compatible and identical across Mac, Windows and Linux. The software is specifically designed for researchers and students in academia, non-profit, government and market research. It was developed for users that are looking to quickly start analyzing qualitative text data, without spending lots of time and resources on learning the software.

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Quirkos Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $6.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$6.00

per user, per month

No plan information available

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Quirkos Features

Popular features found in Market Research
Benchmarking
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Panel Management
Question Branching
Reporting & Statistics
Statistical Analysis
Survey/Poll Management
More features of Quirkos
Access Controls/Permissions
Ad hoc Analysis
Annotations
Categorization/Grouping
Collaboration Tools
Customer Segmentation
Customizable Reports
Data Coding
Data Storage Management
Drag & Drop
Mixed Methods Research
Multi-Language
Multiple Data Sources
Multiple User Accounts
Offline Access
OLAP
Phone-Based
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Relational Display
Reporting/Analytics
Search/Filter
SSL Security
Surveys & Feedback
Tagging
Text Analysis
User Research Analysis
Visual Discovery

Quirkos User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

73%

18%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.3

Kevin S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2022

Quirkos: Essential software for data analysis

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I was searching for videos about analyzing qualitative data in youtube.com and I stumbled upon computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. From there, a video about Quirkos emerged and I watched an introductory video about using Quirkos. After that I went to the Quirkos site and began researching prices, availability, etc. The price was so reasonable I thought to myself I couldn't do without the product and I was right! Imagine I was going to code my data using different colored post-it notes or different colored highlighting markers. Instead, I was able to create Quirks, or categories, which were easy to manipulate with the software's drag and drop features. In addition, the ability to create reports and classify data was also easy to use. At one point, I had a question about one of the features and someone from Quirkos returned my inquiry within 24 hours. The support was amazing and the product was simple to navigate, especially for someone who is not that tech savvy. In short, Quirkos is essential software for data analysis.

Cons:

I can't say there was anything I didn't like about this product.

Fray Agustin G.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Categorizaciones rápidas

Lo he usado para buscar temas de manera fácil. Cuando agrego una entrevista nueva, rápidamente puedo empezar a trabajar y encontrar temas de conversación

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Me gusta la forma en que representa visualmente los códigos y formar categorías analíticas mediante agrupación

Cons:

No permite trabajar con documentos de imágenes o video ni con muchas otras fuentes de datos

Reasons for switching to Quirkos

No me gusto el nuevo sistema de licenciamiento

Ray A.

Verified reviewer

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Installed and tested Quirkos 1.4. It couldn't handle a 100 page Word document for coding.

I learnt how important it is for a QDA to be robustly designed from the very start. Quirkos suffers from a lack of robust design that reduces its stability and made it essentially useless to me. It has great potential and could be a major QDA application especially because of its true cross-platform support that includes Linux.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The design of the user interface is excellent. The interface is intuitive, easy to use, and follows quite an intuitive method of assigning codes to documents. The fact that Quirkos is cross-platform, and is the only bigger-name QDA that will run natively in Linux, is utterly brilliant. Researchers and grad students who rely on Linux should consider Quirkos. Perhaps the shortcomings I have noted here will not be problems for usage, or hopefully have been remedied.

Cons:

The backend design of Quirkos is simply not robust enough for qualitative data analysis. My field research Word documents are all 100 -200 pages in length. Quirkos was not able to handle even one of these documents for coding. The application became very slow and unresponsive and eventually crashed. Customer service told me that v1.4 was unable to handle long documents, but added that the team was rewriting much of the code for a more robust release. In my opinion, a QDA application must be able to handle huge documents with no reduction in speed or responsiveness. Another con is that Quirkos is unable to code PDF documents directly. PDF documents must be converted into .txt or .doc formats in order to import into the software for coding. This is simply not a practical solution for researchers who have many PDF documents for analysis. Transcoding to another format will also lead to the loss of original page number formatting- this can be problematic when it comes to citing an exact page number

Vendor Response

Thanks for your feedback! Sorry that you had performance issues with this much older version, and it's a shame you wrote a review of 2-year old software. We have released 4 free updates since v1.4 and greatly improved performance, especially on Linux with native 64bit support. We always welcome people to try the new versions as they come out, so do download the trial and give it a spin again...

Replied September 2018

Tina H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used monthly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

A Promising Software

Overall, I'm very excited about this software and can't wait to use it more.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I greatly appreciate the visual color element to coding. I tend to work very well with color coded labeling, and this helped greatly in identifying different themes. Additionally, the colors make work more interesting, which, when you're spending hours upon hours analyzing, makes work much more interesting. This is what I have been waiting for.

Cons:

I didn't get to try out every single feature, but I do think I needed a more thorough introduction to be able to smoothly get around, even thought I watched the video and went through the little arrows. I need more than a quick start. I had a few problems with how to do certain things, and unfortunately didn't figure out how to do them before the trial ended.

Reasons for switching to Quirkos

It's more affordable, it's more colorful, and I wanted to try something new. I think it might be simpler to use, but I'm not sure yet (haven't used it enough).

Elizabeth D.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

Quirkos Makes Data Analysis Easy (Even for a Novice)

Excellent -- it is difficult to imagine how I would have finished my doctoral study without it! Thank you!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The visual representation and the options for how to organize each data point made it easier for me to identify important patterns and outliers in my qualitative interview data. Also, it was a huge time-saver to use the various text search choices as I worked through my iterative coding.

Cons:

At first, I had some difficulty combining data points (quirks) and then separating them if I needed to, but this got easier as I kept going.

Tom D.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Why Quirkos was the best choice for my literature reviews....

Excellent and would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to integrate a CAQDA process in their workflow as I have done, especially if you work between platforms.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

First and foremost, as mentioned in countless reviews, I too have found Quirkos to be the easiest CAQDA software to use. It allows me to focus on my work and not how to do it. Its coding visualization feature (visualizing individual quirks from my text data) is exceptionally powerful and again easy to implement right away. Additionally, two features for me that I found exceptionally powerful (since I work on both macs and windows) is the ease at which I can work cross platform. Since, the interface is the same on both macs and windows it is very easy to switch back and forth. Most importantly, I really found the autosave feature a lifesaver by keeping my most recent and up to date version always available to me (one computer at a time). Lastly, and to me, interestingly, although I have access to other more feature rich CAQDA software (NVIVO, Atlas.ti and MaxQDA), I use Quirkos most, I think due to its ease of use and ability to not interfere with my workflow between computers, albeit within the textual environment (rtf, txt, doc). In essence, it allows me to jump right in and get my work done.

Cons:

I think at the top, would be its less robust feature set of working primarily with textual formats (text, word documents and rich text formats). Would like to see future support for pdf (natively) and multimedia objects in the future. Since most of my work deals with my pdfs, I have learned to work around this limitation by exporting my highlighted summaries from the pdfs sources and work with these snippets within Quirkos. Quirkos works perfectly within my workflow and create a nice export summary of all my relationships and insights.

Jenny D.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Reviewed September 2022

Excellent tool for coding and analysing qualitative data

Quirkos has been such a valuable tool during the completion of my Masters dissertation. I am also so grateful for all the useful blog posts and video content on YouTube explaining the various research philosophies and techniques for analysis - this piece of the puzzle was something that I had been struggling with, but clicked into place after watching just one nine minute video on YouTube - so thank you very much for creating these. I recommended and shared with some of my uni colleagues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is very user friendly, I really enjoyed how easy it was to create codes and the drag feature was very handy. The overlap feature was perfect for the type of analysis required for my project. Initially I got a lot of value from the videos on YouTube explaining qualitative analysis, it was through these that I found the software in the first place.

Cons:

I had some issues with pasting text into Source, I had to change the colour of the source text to white sometimes when pasting in - this could be a Mac problem, because I didn't experience this problem using a PC. I had some issues using the drag feature, again I think this is a Mac problem (I have the latest MacBook Air with M2 chip), but after trying out various wire and bluetooth mice (I should note that the mouse on the PC where it worked was bluetooth too so I don't think the issue is a mouse one), I discovered that I could use my touchpad. Support were very quick to respond, which was appreciated despite figuring it out for myself. This could be user error, but I found the overlap feature only presented in concentric circles using the desktop version and was not available in the Web version - this wasn't a problem in the end, as I just accessed it via the PC. If I was unable to travel to the PC then this may have presented a problem.

Kari E.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed May 2023

User Friendly and Visually Appealing

I loved the programming and did a ton of research before landing on Quirkos! I am so happy I did. Perfect for qualitative analysis which is often more tricky to dissect.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

So easy to use, visualize themes and to move things around as the data became clear!

Cons:

If you forget your password it’s a nightmare to resolve. Hope they fix this!

Anna S.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed October 2022

Useful for qualitative research

Overall I had no problems with this software and it was a great help for my dissertation at a very competitive prise for students. It was very easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really liked how easy the whole software was to use as well as the different colours that highlighted the text to make it easier to see what was done or not. Having the data password protected was very important to me for my research purposes.

Cons:

The software was at time a little slow to load all the data but I had a lot and the design is a little out dated but it does the job and I was able tondo what I needed.

Dona H.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Easy for Beginners

Used Quirkos for a beginning qualitative analysis project ... small dataset ... minimal experience as a coder ... found Quirkos very easy to use, intuitively designed ... not hard to get the project and analysis 'up and running' ... Would recommend to anyone seeking to get started quickly ...

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use with minimal 'learning curve' ...

Cons:

Not much ... liked it! ... Had to rely on Quirkos support for help with the graphics on my older computer ... but didn't take long to fix it ...

Vendor Response

Thanks for your feedback!

Replied March 2019