Pricing

Free for 30 days. Then pick a plan.

Try everything for 30 days. Keep going for $9.99 a month, or save with annual. One price for everyone, the same as the Mac App Store.

Plans

Monthly
$9.99 / month

Month to month. Cancel anytime.

  • On-device audio and video transcription
  • Coding, themes, quotes, analysis views
  • Trustworthiness and audit trail
  • All updates while subscribed
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Annual · best value
$79.99 / year

Save $39.89 a year vs monthly (about $6.67/mo).

  • Everything in Monthly
  • Four months free vs paying monthly
  • One renewal a year, no fuss
  • One price for everyone, no institutional markup
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Every plan starts with the same 30-day free trial · Apple Silicon · macOS 14 or later · notarized by Apple

What you get either way

No lock-in

Your work is yours

Projects are plain files on your Mac. Cancel and you keep every project, transcript, and export.

No per-minute fees

Transcription is included

Cloud services charge by the audio minute. Quala transcribes on your Mac, so a hundred interviews cost the same as one.

Why paid

Keeps it improving

A real price funds new analysis views, better transcription, and support, so Quala stays a tool you can rely on.

Common questions

What happens when the 30-day trial ends?

Quala stops running new analyses until you subscribe. Nothing you already made is locked away or deleted. Projects, transcripts, codebooks, and exports are plain files on your Mac.

Can I cancel at any time?

Yes. Monthly is month to month. If you cancel, Quala keeps working until the period you paid for runs out, and everything you exported stays yours.

Is there a student or academic discount?

No, and that is deliberate. One price for everyone, students included. Discount tiers mean somebody is paying the inflated price to subsidise them, and we would rather set one honest number: $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year.

Does it work offline?

Quala runs entirely on your Mac, including transcription. Interviews are transcribed on device, so the work continues with the network off and recordings never go to a service.

What happens to my work if I stop subscribing?

You keep it. Projects, transcripts, codebooks, and exports are plain files on your Mac. There is no proprietary vault that holds your study hostage, and no export fee.

Mac App Store or direct download?

Either. The price is the same on both. Buy through the Mac App Store if you prefer Apple handling the billing, or download direct if you want updates the moment they ship.

How we price

Earn trust by being good, not by overclaiming

No manufactured testimonials, no inflated numbers. Run the 30-day trial on your own interviews and decide for yourself.