--- title: NVivo Reviews meta_title: 'NVivo Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 138 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how NVivo works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 138 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Business Intelligence url: https://www.g2.com/categories/business-intelligence --- # NVivo Reviews **Vendor:** Lumivero **Category:** [Data Visualization Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-visualization-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 138 ## About NVivo NVivo is the leading qualitative and mixed-methods analysis platform, designed to turn unstructured data into evidence-based insights by unifying coding, querying, and AI-assisted analysis. It enables researchers to organize and interpret interviews, focus groups, and surveys, compare findings across cases and themes, and visualize results– ensuring that insights meet the rigor required for publications, evaluations, and grant proposals. The most cited QDA software in academic publications worldwide (Scopus Database, 2010–2025), NVivo has supported scholars, teams, and institutions across social sciences, education, health, and public policy for over 30 years. ## NVivo Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find NVivo to be a **user-friendly and efficient system** that greatly enhances qualitative research workflows. (2 reviews) - Users find NVivo to enhance **efficiency in qualitative research** , making data organization and analysis effortless and insightful. (2 reviews) - Users find NVivo's **data analysis features** invaluable for organizing and visualizing complex qualitative research data effectively. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **analysis accuracy** of NVivo, significantly enhancing the depth and clarity of their research outcomes. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **rich analytics capabilities** of NVivo, enhancing the depth and clarity of qualitative research outcomes. (1 reviews) - Categorization (1 reviews) - Data Analysis (1 reviews) - Data Management (1 reviews) - Data Visualization (1 reviews) - Easy Integrations (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find NVivo to be **not user-friendly** , with a confusing interface and frustrating customer service hindering productivity. (3 reviews) - Users experience **poor customer support** with NVivo, facing slow responses and frustrating policies that hinder timely assistance. (3 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with NVivo, causing frustration and hindering efficient access to research data. (3 reviews) - Users face significant **compatibility issues** between Windows and iOS, complicating collaboration and causing overall frustration. (2 reviews) - Users find the **interface confusing** and experience steep learning curves, complicating their research efforts with NVivo. (2 reviews) - Users find NVivo's **lack of essential features** increasingly frustrating, especially regarding version compatibility and customer support. (2 reviews) - Users criticize NVivo for **licensing issues** that hinder collaboration and limit access to their data effectively. (2 reviews) - Users experience **poor performance** with NVivo, facing crashes, slow speeds, and unreliable data access, impacting their research. (2 reviews) - Complexity (1 reviews) - Complex Usage (1 reviews) ## NVivo Reviews ### 1. Qualitative Data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** You can make word clouds out of your data, which is a good illustration for presentations. You can analyze and code a lot data on NVivo. From marketing to human research, it manageable on NVivo. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** NVivo does tend to slow down with massive data sets. Maybe I have a slow acting computer, but it gets the job done! **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Great for analyzing qualitative data from focus groups or even in-person interviews. You can create word clouds which is pretty cool using your own data. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing data and coding narrative (opened questions) from surveys. Easy to view and manage data. Not to mention, it's easy to learn! Anyone can do it! ### 2. Great tool for phone interviews! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan H. | Assistant to the CEO, Pharmaceuticals, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I like how easy it was to categorize my call transcripts. I also appreciate how I can go back and load previous categories on new transcript. This software goes the extra mile in offering a complex working environment while also eliminating the hassle of most complex software. I have used multiple transcription softwares before for text analysis and NLP; NVivo tops them all in creating value for your team. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I do not like how difficult it is to work on the same document or transcript with team members. I think that there should be more options for editing a file, similar to having the ability to redline a document in a word document. Although this many not be an option, I found it very difficult to view my working file on other devices. I wish that NVivo had a PDF option where I could view-only. I think that with this view-only option, the software would still be able to maintain the exclusivity of a pay for software. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Take the time to learn all of the features to Nvivo by watching the tutorials - it will pay off! **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a reliable software to preform qualitative text analysis. The complexity and features of the software have created great value for our team. ### 3. Useful tool for qualitative research **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It keeps the coding process less messy than what I would do in pen and paper/excel files. I also like that feature that allows me to see the codes in one place. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It appears that the software uses a lot of spaces and power on the laptop, which creates a lot of heat. When conducting data analysis, I tend to open other files (i.e., word documents). It could be because of that, but my computer sometimes shut off all of sudden. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** I would appreciate if a little bit less expensive options, especially for graduate students. They need to start learning these softwares to be ready for research projects, but it's not easy for them to buy the license unless they get research funding. Currently, the Dedoose (spelling) appears to be the common software to use among grad students, due to the low price, and lower requirement for making commitment on the software. Unless we know for sure that we want to keep using the software for a long time, 600-700 is not an easy amount of money for people to pay. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can send the NVivo file to my collaborators. The easiness to share the analysis as well as the ability to incorporate pictures and video into analysis are the strength of NVivo. At the same time, it sometimes limits the users and easiness to share because of the price... not everyone can afford the software at their own expenses. ### 4. Overall positive and useful software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma D. | Admin Assistant (Temporary Position), Translation and Localization, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The programme is intuitive and easy to learn. I used it for my MSc thesis, and found it a useful tool to identify and group important data points, and collaborate on my research with my professor. Qualitative analysis of large texts can be a challenge, and this really helped to streamline the whole process. It was quick and easy to assign a data point to a node, and this could then be reviewed either as a part of the whole text, or alongside other data points within that cluster. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It could be frustratingly slow at times with lots of lag, especially when scrolling through a large text. The search function likewise ran slowly, to the point where I sometimes would not use it. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** This is a very useful product, especially if you are doing textual analysis or qualitative analysis of any kind of written discourse. Being able to select data points thematically and group them together allows you to see patterns you might miss. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A, I used it for academic purposes and do not currently work for a company that uses NVivo. ### 5. Limited experience but fairly easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hayden J. | Claims Processor, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I really liked the ease of access to basic data entry and interpretation. I enjoy the design of the product - a simple, mid-2000s interface that runs smoothly and does not have unnecessary bells and whistles. Also, it offers user-interface programming! **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Due to limited experience, there were so many components it seemed a little overwhelming. The product is still very new, and there will always be upgrades ready to be made. I did have multiple instances with the product crashing although it could have been computer related. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** I would definitely recommend watching video tutorials or reading websites that might have tutorials, instructions, or tips on how to navigate and use NVivo. I can only compare it to Atlas.ti, but I would prefer to use NVivo over Atlas.ti if I were to use it in a business setting. I hope that the company makes strides sooner rather than later to rise to the top of the qualitative analysis applications. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have only used NVivo in a classroom setting, but it seemed to have many potential benefits for business. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to export and import data to Microsoft Excel AND SPSS. ### 6. Ethnic identity publication project **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ellen S. | Principal Researcher, Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The best thing about NVivo is the ability to collaborate across organizations and research groups, in order to compare and contrast notes and findings. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Until recently, NVivo lacked the interface to allow at a glance coding placement on screen in an easily accessible place. While other products have had these capabilities for some time now, NVivo figured out how to integrate these capabilities into its unique approach to qualitative data analysis. These features are quite helpful in the ability to toggle back and forth between coding, parsing the data into topical subject areas and cross referencing. Data analysis is enhanced through the ability to view coded topics in various formats, and this feature contributes to the strength of analysis. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Any good researcher will evaluate tools and processes necessary to the project. Among the research tools considered, NVivo can be particularly helpful with small business users, and the software is widely used in government, education and not for profit research. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real world researchers in NGO or not for profit settings generally lack funding to purchase new software for each project. The ability to collaborate across organizations and pool staffing resources without incurring new expenses makes researching and publishing easier. ### 7. NVivo for nutrition policy research **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** NVivo makes it easy to code transcripts and surveys. I like that Nvivo is easy to learn/use and the data can be viewed in many different ways. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I have heard coworkers complain about NVivo sometimes crashing or not saving their work. Because of this everyone using Nvivo is recommended to save two versions of their project; one in the shared drive and one on their private drive or desktop. Another minor complaint is sometimes extra text is pulled into the areas that I code. This can make viewing the data by node a little messy. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Overall I would recommend NVivo for analyzing qualitative data. I have heard that my coworkers prefer another software, but I only have experience with NVivo. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Coding qualitative interviews efficiently and objectively. Using nodes and running queries is helpful to organize and understand the data. ### 8. Great software for all levels **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aron T. | Senior Research Assistant - Behavioral Sciences, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Nvivo is very user friendly and you have the ability to conduct analyses from very basic levels, to more advanced senior research positions **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Not a friendly interface and difficult to export files or share data **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems related to HIV/substance use and other intersectionality issues. Benefits include the ability to review multiple items and view their overlap ### 9. Web scraping made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It's possible to apply the new methods for social research, even mixed methods thanks to this software **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Not easy to use at its full potential, but very good **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm in social research and I study audience and online TV. Nvivo is making me easy to analyze the audience reaction, trending hashtag and comments on different topics ### 10. NVivo - Effective Tool for Qualitative Research **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashleigh H. | LPHA , Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** NVivo was fairly easy to interface with in order to code lengthy interviews to uncover common themes. As several coders were each coding all of the interviews to attain a level of inter-rater reliability, NVivo also facilitated this process. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It would have been helpful to be able to visualize what the other coders had created as categories while I was coding. Enhancing the ability to view this would have saved time and lots of additional meetings for revisions and consolidating the thematic codes. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** NVivo is a very helpful tool for qualitative research. It is fairly accessible and intuitive and does not require extensive training for research team members in order for them to join projects and participate in thematic coding. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** NVivo was used for a qualitative research study at a large research university. ### 11. Works for Team Research Projects **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The multitude of features and options, the ability to adapt your NVivo experience and tailor it to what you need from the program to come to analysis you are looking for. Ability to have multiple people coding, with clear distinctions in who coded what portion, as well as the various ways to visualize your data, analysis, and coding. I also really like the AutoSave feature. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The downside of my use of NVivo was how it did sometimes crash unexpectedly, resulting in a loss of work. Also, it was sometimes difficult for Mac and PC users to collaborate, due to the change in file formats, or, even it does work, it is not time effective. The program also has occasional glitches. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** If you are considering NVivo in your place of work, set up and require and provide detailed instructions and tutorials for all of those considering the product. This product is great for analysis and deeper qualitative studies, but does have a bit of a learning curve. Many features are extremely handy, useful, or just plain neat, but you will need to know how to find them. NVivo does have great keyboard shortcuts available, which I always made use of, which enabled me to work efficiently and productively. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to work on a research team, do large scale analysis, have a commonality in research meetings and clear procedure for finding what we want from our datasets. The benefits have numerable, it was essentially how we were able to complete our research and come up with a basis for a paper. ### 12. research flexibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I really like the flexibility of program to accommodate different modalities and there have been improvements in the software to go with with my research needs. It helps me to see things differently in ways that I had not thought possible. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Nvivo can be expensive and I've had a hard time convincing others to buy it to use in labs. It can also be hard to merge with other co-workers projects, particularly those who are working with Mac computers. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Do the trial to figure out if it will work for you **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem it solves is how to keep different parts of the project together and view it differently in ways that I had not imagined before and is useful for poster presentations. ### 13. Academic Research **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It's compatibility with SPSS. It eliminated the need for me to save files into Excel. I also liked the option to have my values on SPSS be imported and displayed actual labels. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Too expensive for students to purchase. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Using NVivo for qualitative research eliminates the need to save files from SPSS into excel. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mixed methods research. ### 14. NVivo Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander O. | Health Educator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** As a graduate assistant, NVivo was very user friendly. I was assisting with multiple work-site sodium reduction programs in which I utilized NVIVO to transcribe and analyzed qualitative data to identify themes and attributes to include in data reports. It was easy to navigate the interface and provided adequate settings for additional information related to troubleshooting. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Truthfully, there wasn't anything that I disliked about using this software. The software is user-friendly and doesn't require much troubleshooting. If there are issues, the software provides sufficient information to be able to navigate it. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** The University of Texas at San Antonio used the software to analyze qualitative data to articulate interviews and provide information to reduce sodium intake on work-site premises. ### 15. For qualitative analysis, NVivo is the best tool I've found. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It's very user friendly and aside from being a great tool for qualitative analysis, it is also a great tool for LEARNING qualitative analysis. It's interface is very conducive to learning how to code textual data. In addition to aiding in the learning process, once learned, it was easy to use. It's a tool that helps quantitative data tell a more well-rounded story. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I did not come across anything that I strongly disliked during my time using NVivo. I do recall having a bit of an issue with uploading another person's qualitative data/coding into my program for cross-analysis, but not a glaring enough problem to stand out to me now looking back. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Great tool for qualitative analysis. Highly recommend in a research setting where qualitative data is of value. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used NVivo for global health research and it gave me insight to the context of my quantitative data. It really helps the data tell a story. ### 16. NVivo is a great coding software once you’re familiar with it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I like how easy it is to go back into my research and see what I have coded as what, as well as the ability to make anecdotes that I can look back on when analyzing my findings **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It took me a while to learn how to use NVivo, but once I got the hang of it, I liked it. The manual teaching you how to use it is quite long, but that’s okay because it has many features. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use NVivo to code my qualitative research in thematic analyses and this program is beneficial because I can easily sort my themes and retrieve quotations in writing research articles. ### 17. Intuitive to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It's easy to get started and to figure out the basics for a project. I appreciate how easy it is to develop nodes and to keep the data organized. I haven't used all of the features (e.g., importing images, videos), but it's a great way for me to analyze my interview data. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It's hard to share projects with colleagues in different physical locations. Transferring files isn't easy. For example, I was working on a project with a colleague and we weren't able to figure out how to share NVivo files electronically. We contacted the help staff at NVivo and their advice wasn't helpful. We tried sharing the files through several cloud services, but we could not upload them successfully. I think if NVivo could figure out a way for collaborators (who work in different physical locations, on different networks) to share files this would make the project much better. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm in academics. I use this program for my research. I do a lot of interview research and this program is helpful for me to manage my datasets, run reports on my data, visualize it, and so on. Eventually, I will use this program to teach my students how to conduct qualitative research. Even though I'm early in my career and have used this project sporadically, it's my favorite. ### 18. Very useful for qualitative research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Good tool for organizing qualitative research. I used it for organizing notes from interviews and focus groups and was able to use it to inform survey questions and publishing results in a more quantifiable way. double checking of data is also possible, which is very handy if you are publishing your results. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I can't say I had any problems with it. But I am not an advanced user so improvements are possible. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** If your company can pay for it, definitely get it if you do qualitative research but would like to organize your notes and thoughts in an easily verifiable way. I'm not sure if I would get it if it wasn't paid for by the company but i actually do not know how much it costs. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Interview and focus groups information organization and publications. If you want to have it all in one place, this tool is very useful for these purposes. ### 19. Useful for keeping lots of qualitative data organized, and reachable **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I use NVivo mostly to organizing my qualitative data, such that when I need to get back to it I can reach quickly the part that I am looking for. The coding tools are great for this. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The license is expensive and depending on what you use NVivo for, there may be cheaper alternatives. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use NVivo for the qualitative side of my research, mostly text and annotations on in-depth interviews with dozens of actors. ### 20. User-friendly and interactive **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler B. | Student, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I appreciate that the program takes the old-fashioned practice of sticky notes and highlighters for textual analysis and provides a modern version of this in a technologically-appropriate way (i.e. flagging and color coding thematic observations). I further appreciate the ability to import textual data rather than having to manually input it. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The word count feature is unreliable for discerning themes within textual data--however, it may be improved if expanded to include phrase restriction in the search criteria options. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this technology to work with Student Affairs data at a large, +30,000 student university. It helped to organize and manage large amounts of qualitative data. ### 21. Nvivo user for public health evaluation in both governmental programs as well as academia. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mental Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** NVivo is very user friendly - without formal training in the software I was able to utilize NVivo's features to accurately enter, code, and evaluate my qualitative data. It was easy to import data, code it using multiple users, and analyze the results. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** A downside I found while using NVivo was that your methods of coding do have to be very similar - if one person codes a paragraph, but others just sentence, it can definitely have an impact on your percent agreement - best to sort out methods ahead of time. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used NVivo to analyze qualitative data from focus groups. It was quick to use and user friendly. ### 22. Perfect for Qualitative Analysis Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I really love how user friendly NVivo is. It's easy to switch between Macs and Windows platforms. I love that I can import my codebooks and can easily code things quickly. The data visualization tools are also very easy to use. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The only thing that can be frustrating with NVivo is sometimes when I am switching back and forth between .a Mac and a Windows that the files take much longer to load on a Mac. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I switched to NVivo from Atlas.ti because it's faster and more affordable to use. My team and I are looking to use this software to quickly completely qualitative data analysis. ### 23. NVivo, fantastic tool for the organization of any project. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rocirys R. | Técnico de Soporte, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2018 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Currently in the field where I work job is handled a lot of information, which is essential to keep these data organized, I have been able to achieve thanks to NVivo. This tool has allowed me not only to organize, but also to analyze the texts regardless of the format that comes from, editing texts for the construction of reports, among others. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** NVivo turns out to be a little complicated at first because it has a lot of functionalities which has cost me to adapt, but every day I discover a little more about this wonderful tool. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Indeed this application meets all my expectations, it has a very friendly graphical environment, and as I use it I discover new things about it. It is an application that is worth discovering and implementing. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** This application has allowed us to visualize graphically a lot of information and that was of great importance for the teamwork, but most important the organization of the data for a thorough analysis and for the creation of reports. ### 24. NVivo Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It was reliable in the sense that information was never lost. The ability to code information was uncomplicated without running the risk of being oversimplified and missing detail. I was never concerned that the software would ever lose data, which was a huge relief when storing so much important information. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The system was slow moving, often took a long time to load information which slowed down work efficiency. The platform was not as intuitive as it maybe could have been. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** NVivo allowed for information to be stored all in one place. Streamlining the process of interview coding, transcribing, etc. all in one place. Benefits also included the ability to work on a team using NVivo it allowed for collaboration more readily. ### 25. NVivo in Diverse setting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It is very user friendly and aesthetically pleasing. I find NVivo to be very intuitive and as a social scientist I have been able to get my clinical science colleagues to use NVivo. My favorite feature is the coding comparison which allows us to work as a team to collaboratively and accurately code text. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Some of the logic is not clear - I struggle to find certain reports after I run them and save them. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Please make a better set of help docs/sites. I have intermediate to advanced questions and your forums do not help. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** NVivo fills our void for text-based analysis and allows us to use our interview and focus group data for more sophisticated purposes. ### 26. Used this at university- will continue using for my own projects **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It's great for coding and running queries. It's relatively straightforward to use and is easy to pick up. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The plugin for switching files from Mac to PC on a team is very finicky. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Have your team work solely on Mac or PC. Switching between systems is difficult. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using it for a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Ronald McDonald house in New Orleans. ### 27. Makes Research Easy - Just Ignore the Bells and Whistles **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** For NVivo, I like how easy it is to keep all of my data together and searchable. I can run queries to find specific keywords and create charts of my data with ease. Changing my codebook and creating parent/child codes is simple and saves a ton of time. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I dislike that I can't save my presets easily. When I create bar charts of my coded data, I always want to look at the number of occurrences versus percentiles. I have to change this setting manually for every code. I'd also like an easier way to exit the editing screen for my data. These really are nitpicks, but they're relatively annoying. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to keep my annotations, data, and coding in one place is superb. Being able to change my codebook and easily visualize my codes saves me so much time and energy. ### 28. Incredible tool for qualitative analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Ranching | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Allows for easy and integrated coding of qualitative data. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It has a learning curve, but once mastered it’s a really neat program to employ. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to easily create interested reliability of qualitative research data. ### 29. Qualitative HIV research **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The ability to quickly pull specific codes was helpful in pulling quotes for manuscripts and data reports. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It's a lot of front-end work that I wasn't convinced was worth the result. For the amount of money we paid for the subscription I didn't feel like the resulting utility of our code structure was radically different from when we used code in Microsoft Word or Excel. Also the inability for multiple users to code simultaneously was a bit painstaking to work around in comparison to Dedoose. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** NVivo has been useful as adding an air of credibility to our qualitative methodology in grant proposals and manuscripts, but honestly I have yet to realize it's full benefit during analysis. ### 30. NVivo **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joey R. | Accreditation & Accountability Coordinator-Operations and Policy Analyst III, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The ability to pull together multiple file types from in one place to build a complete story with different forms of research **What do you dislike about NVivo?** There's definitely a learning curve to NVivo and it's not as widely adopted as other software packages. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** NVivo allowed us to analyze thousands of survey comments that we would have to rely on several staff to do. The text analysis gave us clear themes to work with and give the marketing team direction for a new campaign. ### 31. NVivo allowed for my research team to effectively and efficiently conduct qualitative research. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I like the Word Trees and word maps the most. I also utilized the word search querys. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I wish there had been more of visual displays and applications to display the data. The word maps and tree was great but I'd like to see more visuals or charts with number representations. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Create more visual displays and maps, watch a video before hand to see if it's right for your company **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was solving doing thematic content analysis on large sets of data, specifically interviews. NVivo creates an efficient and effective way to explore, observe, and describe qualitative data. It allowed my team to better organize the data which saved us so much time. ### 32. I do not have much experience using NVIVO **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mofida A. | Research Assistant, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It can be used on Macs and Windows software, it is good for qualitative analysis, and it is a lot of built in functions for coding **What do you dislike about NVivo?** There is no portable versions, if one needs to use it on another computer, it is expensive, and there are minor bugs **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to code and color code nodes throughout qualitative work, it can analyze audio data along with text data ### 33. NVivo Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel S. | Research Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** It was easy to use and made qualitative research simple. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I feel like there were features of NVivo that I was not utilizing because I did not know about them, and I could not find any training that NVivo offered. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Use if you are interested in text analysis. It makes text analysis easy and can save you a lot of time. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used NVivo to conduct text searches for keywords. ### 34. Used NVivo at work to sort phrases into distinct categories **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christine W. | Project Manager, Research, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I liked how easy it was to use and if you made a mistake you could easily go back. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I used this software when the nodes, etc. were set up for me, did not work at creating the nodes. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to do quantitative and qualitative analysis on home health admissions processes. the data is still being analyzed. ### 35. Love it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Great integration of software. Love the network storage **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Pricing can be high when not all employees have fully converted. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** All my needs are in one centralized place. Also love to only pay for what we need. ### 36. A good tool for qualitative analysis but needs to have more collaboration features **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anam B. | UX Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The fact that I can analyze coding themes created by different people and verify the consistency through kappa scores **What do you dislike about NVivo?** That there is no collaboration feature, that you have to merge files manually from different file systems to get a real analysis. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were doing qualitative analysis of transcribed user interviews using nvivo to create themes and sub themes to come up with design deliverables ### 37. Adaptable Analysis software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna S. | Grant Program Manager, Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** helpful for a variety of analytic approaches **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The visual layout is not the most intuitive to me. As a visual person, it takes a lot of set-up and practice to understand the most effective way to visualize the organization of nodes and attributes **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** it illuminated how little different agencies are using big data in their established governance processes and policies ### 38. Awkward at first but gets easier once you get the hang of it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** My favorite feature is the Word cloud for presenting qualitative data .Also, it is pretty easy to to create nodes and sub-nodes. I have not used the analytic part yet, so the jury is out on that. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** Nvivo icons to execute commands to code interview transcripts are not immediately intuitive. Also, I wish there was a quicker way for assigning interview text to node/sub-node categories. NLP is just not very good. If you can, you should get transcription services. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Text Analysis feature is pretty good. NLP feature needs more work. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** In healthcare research, we use to manage, code and analyze qualitative data such as interview transcripts. ### 39. Qualitative Research based **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward M. | Marketing And Development Intern, Legal Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The software was relatively easy to access and navigate. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** It could be slow at times. This may have been a result of the hardware that I had access to at the time, but it slowed down the process to a standstill sometimes. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was used in a research setting to analyze large amounts of confidential documents. The benefits were largely realized. ### 40. I used NVIVO while in school to analyse data. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah J. | Recruiter, Public Relations and Communications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** NVIVO was really simple to use and unlike other programs I used to use it doesnt crash in the middle of using it. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I did not have any issues with NVIVO while I used it **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** NVIVO helped me quickly analyse data I collected for a school project and determine any patterns/ understand the data. ### 41. NVivo is a great software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** - for the most part it's very intuitive and user friendly, it didn't take me too long to figure it out - i like that my coding is color coded - seeing my coding structure on the side of the screen is very convenient **What do you dislike about NVivo?** - I haven't used the matrix option too much did not seem intuitive **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Do the tutorials before starting to use it they are very helpful. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it in research to code my data from interviews or surveys. It makes summarizing large amounts of information very easy and helps me figure out key themes. ### 42. A Qualitative Study Using A Qualitatively Quantified Analysi **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Melvin J. Rivers D. | CEO and President, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I asked the right questions to get to the root cause of problems in an organization. Envivo is a great tool to gather information and discover the emerging themes which come from that information. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I don’t like when executives and managers in the organization takes soundbites and present them as facts. I am a qualified **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee Percep ### 43. It was a very useful tool to analyze qualitative data. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I like that you could compare multiple transcripts at the same time. It was super useful for analyzing qualitative data. I also like that you could highlight certain quotes from different transcripts and oragnize them into the sections of the outline of the report. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** There was not really anything that I dislike about the product. I dont recall there being real training to our team from NVIVO. But my learning and Development team created a basic training. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving our clients problems and providing them the data to make strategic decisions. ### 44. NVivo for applied linguists **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The color coding feature. The fact that you can attribute colors to certain codes is great. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The visual display of all passages coded. At first I was a bit overwhelmed by the way the codes were displayed. I thought that they could be presented in a clearer and more visually appealing format. So you can easily distinguish between different coded passages. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** I specifically like the team functionality. I work a lot with other researchers and RA and being able to code together is a tremendous advantage. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I code interview data ### 45. Great for qualitative research. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Easy to learn how to use. Interface is easy to understand. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** You can basically do coding without it and get the same results. Best for those who already know how to code data. **Recommendations to others considering NVivo:** Recommended for those with experience coding text. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Coding of research. ### 46. Text Analysis Made Easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hither J. | Document Control Specialist, Public Relations and Communications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The ability to collate text heavy documents for analysis **What do you dislike about NVivo?** The user interface was a little clunky and it sometimes took to many clicks to get somewhere. It could use some streamlining. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy information sharing is a business benefit. It used to be harder to review requests for information ### 47. Nvivo is an efficient tool for coding and analyzing research data. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Recreational Facilities and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I used Nvivo for analyzing my research data. I had 16 semi-structured interviews which I transcribed and coded using the program. I liked the color-coding aspects of the text analysis. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** There was a bit of a learning curve and some of the features were not intuitive. I did not receive much training. Better access to training resources would be great. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was doing academic research. Coming up with root cause analysis for certain behaviors in my field of study. The benefits were general and useful in determining future policy. ### 48. Energy Reporting Analyst **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse R. | Energy Reporting Analyst, Renewables & Environment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** Great for qualitative data analysis. This makes analysis a lot easier than originally expected **What do you dislike about NVivo?** So far I have had a great experience. This product has provided a lot of time savings for me. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great for qualitative data analysis. This product has saved me a lot of time. ### 49. Efficient for qualitative data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** The ability to create themes across many resources by tagging, such as interviews and articles. **What do you dislike about NVivo?** I think there should be something a bit better than the word cloud to consolidate all the themes that were selected. **What problems is NVivo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sorting through large qualitative datasets can be very time consuming. NVivo helps me categorize this information and turn qualitative data into something more quantifiable, such as how many times a certain theme or sentiment came up, which helps me capture trends. ### 50. User-Friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about NVivo?** I love how interactive this service is, and how interchangeable the data is with other software. 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