6 stations · 68 tools

AI tools for qualitative research

Tools for interviews, recruiting, transcription and qualitative analysis. Choose a stage to find services for your task and compare their capabilities.

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Research Repository

A company-wide research library: stores recordings, reports and insights so you can check "have we studied this before?".

Unlike Coding & Analysis: there you analyze the current project, here you store and search all past ones.

Dovetail

Collects interviews, calls, reviews and surveys, transcribes them and finds recurring themes. Answers questions across all your data.

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Coding & Analysis · Research RepositoryYesOfficial
Dualo

Turns your archive of research reports into a knowledge base: ask what the company already knows on a topic and get answers linked to reports.

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Research RepositoryYesNo
Marvin

Stores all company research, runs hundreds of AI interviews at once and answers questions about accumulated data.

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AI-Moderated Interviews · Coding & Analysis · Research RepositoryYesOfficial
Aurelius

Collects notes and transcripts from all interviews, helps tag them and find recurring themes. AI writes summaries.

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Coding & Analysis · Research RepositoryNoNo
Condens

Repository for all your team's research: stores recordings and notes, transcribes, searches across projects, suggests tags.

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Coding & Analysis · Research RepositoryNoOfficial
Great Question

Manages a panel of your own customers, invites them to interviews and tests, and keeps all results in one place.

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Research RepositoryNoOfficial
LoopPanel

Connects to Zoom and Meet, transcribes interviews, tags them and turns recordings into insights; searchable across your whole repository.

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Coding & Analysis · Research RepositoryNoNo
Dovetail

Collects interviews, calls, reviews and surveys, transcribes them and finds recurring themes. Answers questions across all your data.

Free planMCP server

Coding & Analysis · Research Repository

Free · paid on request

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Dualo

Turns your archive of research reports into a knowledge base: ask what the company already knows on a topic and get answers linked to reports.

Free plan

Research Repository

Free · paid from $29/mo

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Marvin

Stores all company research, runs hundreds of AI interviews at once and answers questions about accumulated data.

Free planMCP server

AI-Moderated Interviews · Coding & Analysis · Research Repository

Free · paid on request

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Aurelius

Collects notes and transcripts from all interviews, helps tag them and find recurring themes. AI writes summaries.

Coding & Analysis · Research Repository

from $49/mo

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Condens

Repository for all your team's research: stores recordings and notes, transcribes, searches across projects, suggests tags.

MCP server

Coding & Analysis · Research Repository

from €15/mo

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Great Question

Manages a panel of your own customers, invites them to interviews and tests, and keeps all results in one place.

MCP server

Research Repository

from $129/mo

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LoopPanel

Connects to Zoom and Meet, transcribes interviews, tags them and turns recordings into insights; searchable across your whole repository.

Coding & Analysis · Research Repository

from $49/mo

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Questions and answers

What is an AI-moderated interview, and which tools can run one?

An AI moderator is software that asks questions from your discussion guide, follows up on answers, and runs hundreds of interviews in parallel by text, voice, or video. Our AI-moderated interviews station lists several such tools. Juno charges per completed interview with no subscription and has a free plan. Yasna runs in-depth interviews sold in interview packs. Listen recruits from its own large panel, and Outset.ai offers video, voice, or text; both have an official MCP server for Claude.

How do I transcribe user interviews with speaker labels and human proofreading?

Upload the recording to an AI transcription service; several also offer paid human review for higher accuracy. Happy Scribe adds paid human proofreading, has a free plan and an official MCP server. Rev offers human transcription and free monthly AI minutes (English only). Notta has a free plan with monthly minutes and connects to meetings. Cockatoo covers dozens of languages with speaker labels, timestamps and translation, useful for multi-country studies.

Can AI code qualitative interview data in NVivo, ATLAS.ti or MAXQDA?

Yes: all three let you code transcripts manually or with AI help, but always check AI output and review every suggested code. ATLAS.ti codes with or without AI, has a web version with student pricing and an official MCP server for Claude. NVivo answers questions with links back to the source text. In MAXQDA the AI assistant is a paid add-on. For a lighter web option, Dovetail finds recurring themes across interviews and has a free plan.

Where can I recruit participants for user interviews, including B2B experts?

Use a participant recruitment platform with its own paid panel and screener. Respondent has a large pool of participants including B2B, with pay-as-you-go pricing per session and incentives billed separately. CleverX sources niche professionals such as executives, doctors and engineers, and pays their incentives for you. Prolific offers vetted participants popular in academic research, with a free plan and an official MCP server. Askable combines recruitment with AI-moderated interviews.

What is a UX research repository, and which tools offer AI search across past studies?

A research repository is a searchable database of all past interviews, notes and reports, so teams can check what they already know before running new research. Dovetail and Marvin answer questions across all stored data (always check AI output); both have a free plan and an official MCP server. Condens is a paid subscription tool that suggests tags. Great Question manages your own customer database, invites people to studies and stores the results. Dualo turns an archive of finished reports into a knowledge base.

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