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Interview tools help teams talk to users and customers and turn those conversations into findings: finding and scheduling participants, running or recording the call, transcribing it, tagging and summarising what people said, and sharing clips and insights. Great Question, Lookback and Lyssna cover recruiting and running sessions; Dovetail, Condens, Marvin and Looppanel focus on analysis and a research repository; Outset runs AI-moderated interviews; User Interviews recruits participants and Grain records calls. Open-source options cover parts of the job: OpenInterviewer runs AI interviews on your own keys, noScribe transcribes locally, and QualCoder, Taguette, OpenQDA and Quadro handle qualitative coding.
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Cutting edge AI technology for automated audio transcription. A nice GUI for OpenAIs Whisper and pyannote (speaker identification)
★ 2.2kFreeQUccbogel/QualCoderQualitative data analysis for text, images, audio, video. Cross platform. Python 3.13 or newer and PyQt6.
★ 696FreeOBchrisgrieser/obsidian-quadroObsidian Plugin for social-scientific Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA). An open alternative to MAXQDA and atlas.ti, using Markdown to store data and research codes.
★ 162FreeTAremram44/taguetteFree and open source qualitative research tool -- MIRROR OF GITLAB REPOSITORY
★ 90FreeOPopenqda/openqdaFree open collaborative qualitative data analysis software
★ 81FreeOPlinxule/openinterviewerOpen-source qualitative research platform for adaptive AI interviews, scripted demos, and BYOS deployments with Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, or OpenRouter.
★ 30FreeEXnicotem/exegeteExegete: agentic qualitative data analysis application. You work in conversation with your AI assistant. Extensive human oversight routines and integrity checks are built-in. Files can be pseudonymised before the agent reads them. Works with cloud and local models. Projects remain compatible with QualCoder so that work can continue there as well.
★ 6FreeINmajortomL/interview-analysis-toolLocal-first, self-hosted tool for qualitative interview research: transcribe audio with faster-whisper, review transcripts and speaker roles, code passages, develop themes and export projects—all in one privacy-conscious workflow.
★ 1FreeOPVellum-Works/openverbatimOpen-source, agent-native qualitative research platform. Code interviews with reviewable AI suggestions, confirmed-evidence states, and a full audit trail. A transparent alternative to NVivo, ATLAS.ti, and Dovetail. Apache-2.0.
★ 1FreeDIOdiph/discovery-copilotLive coach for customer-discovery interviews: records both sides, transcribes Hebrew/English, suggests Mom Test questions, and keeps a local evidence corpus. Windows.
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