The developer of QualCoder provides an overview of the program, its menus, settings and features, demonstrates how to use QualCoder 3.7. Learn how to import different file types, create case and attributes, and link files to cases and attributes, code text, image and video, search, and run reports.
This is the second part of the QualCoder developer's demonstration. The video covers AI coding and AI Chat in QualCoder 3.7, viewing text coded to multiple codes (16 min.) and searching options, exact match autocoding (19 min), and code relations reports (22 min.) for codes in proximity and overlapped.
QualCoder 3.6 has AI assisted coding and AI chat. You can now organize codes in graph, run code co-occurrence and code by text segments reports, and automatically code survey answers to a code and link them to individual respondents. Temple Libraries QualCoder Spring 2025 Workshops explored these new features.
QualCoder 3.7 has more models for AI Integration. New features include saving your column and row settings and attributes filters and reloading them. Learn more about QualCoder 3.7 new features.
This video shows how to download QualCoder 3.8 from the GitHub site and install on a Windows operating system. See the online documentation for setup options and setting up an AI service. Instructions are the same for installing QualCoder 3.8.2.
This video demonstrates how to uninstall QualCoder 3.6 and install QualCoder 3.7 for Windows. For enabling AI with Blablador, and installing VLC media player to view and code audio and videos, view those segments in Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder. See QualCoder AI Integration section above for enabling a local AI model.
If you have a newer Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 ... M4 processors), download the file QualCoder_3_8_2_arm64.dmg from latest release (QualCoder 3.8.2) and follow the online instructions, which will be similar to QualCoder 3.8 installation.
Important: Make sure you have installed any MAC OS updates before starting the installation. Note the instructions below for QualCoder 3.8 about any pop up warning.
For Intel based Macs you will need to download the source code and install it manually. You will need to have installed Python 3.10 or higher.
Once you have downloaded the Source code (zip), unzip (if needed) and move it to application. Follow the instructions in the Readme file.
You can also try the following steps. First, go to Finder and right click on the QualCoder 3.8.2 folder and you may see service with more options. Select "new terminal from selected folder". This will open the terminal at this QualCoder 3.8.2 folder without having to change directory. If you have not downloaded the developer tools, you may be prompted to install them during this process.
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
If you are on an older, Intel-based Mac, you must type or copy and paste the following script (it is fine to do this if you are uncertain). If this does not work, try pip3 install “numpy<2”.
pip install "numpy<2"
python3 -m pip install .
cd src
Launch QualCoder (you must be in the directory with QualCoder 3.8.2 src):
Follow the installation steps below for QualCoder 3.6 but download the latest release (QualCoder 3.8).
Important: Make sure you have installed any MAC OS updates before starting the installation.
When you first try to run the program, you will get a pop up warning. For new silicon processor you may have the option "Done" or "Move to trash. Click "Done. Next, go to Go to Settings and select Privacy and Security. Scroll down until you see a message stating QualCoder was prevented from starting. Click on "open anyway". You may be prompted to enter your password and may need to click "Open" again. After entering your password, just wait for the program to open up. It may take several seconds.
This video demonstrates how to install QualCoder 3.6 on a Mac OS. For enabling AI, and installing VLC media player to view and code audio and videos, view those segments in Project, File and Data Management with QualCoder.
These videos are Spring 2025 workshop recordings or are tutorials for the workshops. Please note that changes may have been made to QualCoder with newer versions since the videos were made. For example, in QualCoder 3.7, you can save and reload filters. These recordings are not being updated and are retained only for reference and recordkeeping.
This video demonstrates how to install and launch the free QualCoder qualitative data analysis software, enable AI integration, and manage qualitative data projects, files and data. Since the video was made, QualCoder 3.6 has been released.
When you have different data, you want to be able to link them to the same cases. In QualCoder 3.5 and earlier versions, QualCoder UNIQUE case constraint prevents the import of surveys with case names that already exist in the project. This video demo, using the pre-released QualCoder v. 3.6, suggests one way to address this problem. Since the video was made, the developer has removed the UNIQUE constraint for case name in survey import in the to be released version 3.6. A warning stills appear, but the survey will be imported. Column headers (attributes) and values do not replace existing headers but additional column headers and values will be added.
This video demonstrates how to change a code color as you code. It also goes over changing a category of color with Colour Scheme and viewing color from different color blindness perspectives. QualCoder 3.6 has a color palette icon in Coding menus to allow you to select the default color for new codes.
This video shows how to export a reference from Zotero and import it into QualCoder. Qualcoder does not import the abstract as a separate file so the video shows three way to create a file or memo.
Besides the three ways shown in the video on importing references, you can also import the RIS file in Manage Files and use autocode by start and end marks (the fourth magic wand) to auto code all abstract to a code. Enter AB - in first box (start) and DA - in second box (end).
