# WinCross Desktop Reviews **Vendor:** The Analytical Group **Category:** [Other Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About WinCross Desktop WinCross, the industry's leading crosstabulation software, provides the ability to highlight trends in data and determine statistical significance. ## WinCross Desktop Reviews ### 1. Rigorous Statistical Analysis That Makes Novices Feel Like an Expert **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katie C. | Founder, Market Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2026 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** I am by no means a Stat expert, but they make me feel like an expert! The statistical analysis is rigorous and perfect for my quantitative studies. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** There is a learning curve. I would recommend signing up for training to really understand how to use the features and functionality. Once you spend a few hours you are ready to hit the ground running with basic analysis. I still do basic analysis, but it has been perfect for my business needs. I am aware that I am still just scratching the surface of the functionality, but it is working for now. When I have more time, I will invest more in training. The training was excellent! **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The analysis tools within the survey platforms weren't able to handle the custom datacuts I needed and the flexible statistical analysis. WinCross give me the flexibility to create custom banners and custom tables and applies rigorous statistical testing for my analysis. ### 2. Wincross data tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elaine B. | Research analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2019 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** I like using wincross because it is easy to customize what you need for your specific project/data. The banners tool is extremely useful. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** It definitely takes a bit to learn wincross, the first time I tried I thought I would never get the hang of it. The daily tips when you log in are super helpful to teach you shortcuts you wouldn't know otherwise though! **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Definitely try it out, because it is totally worth using. Especially to give clients data in a professional format **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using banners to create clean output files that we can send to our clients. The stat testing between groups is super useful, as well. ### 3. Wincross - easy to use yet powerful **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Importing an SPSS file automatically sets up every table. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Negative weights for Rim Weighting? While the user is able to specify a minimum weight that is not negative, it should never be allowed in the first place. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast and clean tabs. ### 4. Great software for Data Analysis of Surveys **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to create data tables and banner, fairly intuitive as well. I like that I can save and share job files among coworkers easily. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Sometimes has bugs that can be frustrating, especially in the banners section. Overwhelming amount of settings to be able to manipulate, this may be a bonus for some though. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** It's really solid, does what you need it to, hard to complain about it when it works, but sometimes you get bugs that are fixed by restarting the software. I would say this is kind of rare though. I find that with larger datasets it can take a while to perform some smaller operations, but this may also be a limit of my PC hardware. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** nice to be able to share jobfile, copy into a text editor. we use wincross to help with wave over wave projects when our online software is limited in custom operations. Many common tasks of Market Research Survey data analysis are automated, NET's are easy to create, same with higher level mathematical operations. ### 5. Senior Data Analysts in Market research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun G. | Senior Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Banner creation is so user friendly and easy . **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Charts creation in WinCross could be better **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** If you want automation then wincross desktop is ghe tool **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly tabulation is the major thing i am working on and less time is required for banner creation and significance testing is so easy to apply ### 6. Awesome product for Tabulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atif M. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2021 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** I enjoyed using ease of tabulation with programming as well as with gui. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** I have been using it since last 3 years, i still don’t find much of any issue. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Wincross is for both programmer as well as who can not code. As what ever you could do with coding, you have almost same accessibility with gui. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best thing which i like about wincross is, reusability of the code. ### 7. Wincross Desktop is a user friendly and work any kind of analytics jobs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh A. | Sr. Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** This tool is basically for tabulation and analytical skills **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Working on this tool is much lengthy and manually in script **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Yes I recommend to everybody who works on tabulation purposes. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wincross desktop mainly works on tabulation and sig-testing and weighting also. Mainly it is used for Tabulation works ### 8. Great Tabulation and Analysis software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** We can do many analysis using this software. Tabulation programming is very easy. Weighting is very easy to do and easy to understand. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Number of banner points could be more. If we can use "USE" statement in the banner then it would be wonderful. if we could add some more analysis to this. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** If you are looking for great tabulation software and software related for analysis then it would be a great choice **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tabulation, Stats and ### 9. WinCross not only for crosstabulations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebi J. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** ExpressTabs are quite handy for rapid data analysis. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Inability to handle qualitative data or text analytics. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** If you are a non-programmer and need some rapid data analysis go with Wincross. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** New WinCross can generate tables that contain up to 6000 rows per table and 255 banner columns per banner. So, it can add more value while handling multidimensional data. ### 10. Wincross Analytical tool is very good for programming in Market Research Industry. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit D. | Statistical Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to make banner and do the Column comparison significance testing across all columns. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** There is no specific point to dislike it. However, for advance analysis there is some limitations in win-cross tools. For example advance statistical techniques Regression analysis, Time series analysis, Random boost techniques. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Good to use Win-cross tool to handle market research survey data. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Wincross -tool, earlier I was using Uncle Tabulation tool in my project. However, if number of tables in study is more then programming is lengthy and it takes longer time. But, in win-cross tools, we have "Use" function which is very useful and we can reduce our programming part. ### 11. Awesome tool for cross tabulation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeesh R. | Data analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to create cross tables with multiple filters..hyperlinks really help to read the user easily **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Case sensitive and only capital letters allowed **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to do the primary research...gives clear picture of the data ### 12. Best and easiest GUI tool for tabulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surinder S. | Senior Analyst (Data processing/Tabulation), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Indexing table option, reverse grid and can apply logo and different format **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Lilltle bit more manual work than other tool **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** All tabs related work, weighting data merging etc. ### 13. WinCross evaluation **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** desktop version and easy to use UI makes task easy **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** flexibility how the quantum tool has to do the complex things **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** WinCross allows both experienced analysts and novice users to quickly extract and highlight statistical trends from survey data. WinCross is a high performance research tool. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** WinCross allows both experienced analysts and novice users to quickly extract and highlight statistical trends from survey data. WinCross is a high performance research tool. ### 14. Its good data visualisation tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** It gives GUI to create data tables which I think is best in wincross **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** The banner creation is little tedious. It can be improved. If anything wrong happens while working you have to redo everything. They should simplify the banner creation. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** It is very good tool for tables generation. Does its job smoothly and saves time as well. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in creating data tables, filters etc ### 15. Working as principal analyst works on primary research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen K. | Principal Analyst - Managed Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Easy to use the product and very user friendly **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Nothing much dislikes about wincross but expects updates. We used to use this but currently not using this software **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Will definitely recommend as my ex colleagues are explained the use of this wincorss **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for basic initial tables which allows user to operate smoothly ### 16. Hard to make changes of value lables of data if needed **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** It create tables quick.. And some automation availability. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Hard to find tabs and single space bar diffence **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Fastest way to create tables and for good presentation. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making table and have top two bottom two values and customization of tables ### 17. Wincross Desktop Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** It has all the required features useful for creating tables, reports , banners and weighting. Everything is good in this software. Also aesthetics are great. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Nothing as such that i dont like in wincross **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to work on tabulation and create reports for our clients. Banners are easily made. Very reliable software ### 18. A user friendly tool having capability to review data results **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** User friendliness/ easy to use software. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Not much, perhaps charting capability can be enhanced and can be a bit more like DIY tools **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Do use this as this can easily do your complex tasks in minutes. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data crosstabs, weightinh, banners, charts preparation and data modification, indexing, virtual grid tables, restructuring and all. ### 19. Great tabulation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Easy to use. We can easily create banner. Also, we can create first job using Wincross. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Number of banner points could be more in Wincross. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Give it a try, you will not be disappointed. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** USE function in Wincross is very useful to create same kind of tables. ### 20. Easy way to provide cross tabs ce Crosstabulation tables easily on your own **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob N. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to use the pull down menu options **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** I was limited with regard to the number of variables I I could use in my banners. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Was able to make comparisons easily. ### 21. Excellent drag and drop **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Tables creation with different banners as per requirement **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** We don't have any downside of wincross because we enjoyed to work **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Use wincross **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the research time saving to check the tables on the spot... ### 22. Wincross is one of the oldest and smartest tool to be used till now , I am comfortable using **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** usage ability. Different tupes of signifcance test can be conducted , calculation to compute any variables within tool itslef. Can be used 2 or members at a time to speed up your work. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Would like to have interface as morre appelling when compared to other DIY tool available in markets. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complex and medium level programming stuffs ### 23. Great to use for tabulation and analysis, and very user friendly to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** User friendly, Easy to use, Can be used for a lot of analysis, Great for stat testing **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** We cannot do weighting directly here, the look and feel of graphs have to be more professional. Do not support all kinds of data file. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Use it to solve all your tabulation and analysis problems **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tabulation on different banner, quick graphs ### 24. easy to use when we compare wincross with other DP softwares like quantum **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** codes are easy to write in wincross. Outputs can be customized. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** so far i have not find anything that i don't dislike about wincross **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** sure already Recommend my current organisation but they still want to stick with quantum **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am generating cross tabulation by using sig testing on 90% -95% . ### 25. It's really good, Used along with SPSS.....We can easily create cross tabs...and full set of tables. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** GUI and syntax mode both are very useful. Tip of the Day **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Not enough videos on data when comapare to the tableau or SPSS **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** No other recommendations. will let you know if any **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have worked on data processing, it would be very helpful ### 26. Perfect Tabulation Software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Convenient GUI, Ease of Access Tutorials **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** First job file lists all variables, have to edit them manually **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Can use of Tutorials online for easy understanding of the concepts **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on Tabulation and preparing reports ### 27. Nice and clear output **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** To get clear banner tabs with significant testing **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Not much dislike I remember used it long back **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems like comparing the significance testing to compare the results ### 28. Woncross **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** This software has the definite advantage of making output tables that are easy to understand and simple enough to be sent to clients **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** It takes a while to understand wincross but the quick tables features really help speed the process up **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** definitely use it to give clients clean output **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving client output of data ## WinCross Desktop Discussions - [What is WinCross Desktop used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-wincross-desktop-used-for) - [Don't believe anything you read on G2. They reneged on their promise to give me an Amazon gift card even after dozens of email follow ups. 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