Qualitative Analysis Software for Mac

Transcription that never leaves the room

Quala transcribes interviews with Apple's on-device speech frameworks. The recording stays on your Mac, the transcript stays on your Mac, and there is no per-minute bill and no third party holding a copy. For IRB-covered interviews, the consent conversation gets simpler because the data path is one sentence long.

A codebook that behaves like an instrument

Codes carry definitions, not just labels. You code excerpts, attach memos, and build themes from evidence, and the codebook stays the single source of truth across the project. ReliCheck Intelligence can suggest codes drawn from your own codebook, and it never auto-applies anything.

Seven ways to see the data

Quala's analysis views cover the questions qualitative work actually asks: what came up, where, said by whom, how often, and with what language. A quote bank keeps the strongest evidence ready for the writing stage.

Defensibility built in

Trustworthiness tools and an append-only audit trail record how the analysis was made. When a committee or reviewer asks how a theme earned its place, the answer is in the project, not in your memory.

Export that respects your formatting

Word export arrives formatted. Copy a coded transcript with highlights and code tags, paste into a manuscript, and it holds. When the study is mixed methods, one click sends the qualitative strand to MM Studio.

Native on Apple silicon

Quala is written in Swift for Apple silicon and follows macOS conventions. It opens fast, works offline, and feels like it belongs on the machine, because it was built for it. It is one of three Mac-native research apps from ReliCheck, alongside Quanta for statistics and MM Studio for mixed methods.