QualCoder

We are pleased to announce the beta release of the next version of QualCoder. This version has a lot of changes and improvements throughout. These are detailed on the pre-release page.

The pre-release can be found here: https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/releases/tag/4.0-Beta

The pre-release also contains executables for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The beta release will be available for around 6 weeks to everyone, to identify any unexpected issues, before the final 4.0 release is made available.

In summary, changes include:

• Arificial intelligence features

• User interface changes

• Survey import changes

• PDF coding changes which displays PDFs in a much improved way for both text and image area coding. (This will break compatibility with older QualCoder project versions. However we have tried to make this version import older PDF coded proejcts with minimal negative affect).

• File imports now includes LaTeX.tex files.

• Co-occurence report also have option to export proximity graphs.

• The code retrieval section can produce more detailed exports of reports.

• The Graph (mind map) is now more user-friendly with more options availble.

• The codes tree codes can now have sub-codes.

Thank you to Marcelo López, National University of Jujuy, and his team for producing this written resource.

INSTRUCTIVO_QUALCODER-3.8.2.pdf

López, M. L., Huaranca, D. A., García Ramírez, C. E., Ricaldi, D. S., Salce, F. M. B. (2026). Introducción al uso del software de análisis cualitativo QualCoder. Instructivo en español confeccionado sobre la versión 3.8.2 para Windows 11. Ediciones El Siku.

This post was on LinkedIn. Whilst we do not have the resources to test all of these options, it is good to know that the Qt graphical interface, which QualCoder uses, assists people who rely on screen-reader software.

Kai has been working on an agentic restructure of AI features. These features turn the AI chat into an agent that can not only talk, but also do extra actions in QualCoder.

• Read-only gives the AI agent read access to the complete code tree, all the memos and codings, as well as the empirical data through a diverse set of search tools (text only).
• Sandboxed allows for limited write-access: The agent can create new codes and codings, but it cannot change or delete existing ones.
• Full access gives additional write access to existing codes, codings, attributes, and cases – with precautions: Destructive operation must be confirmed by the user.

The screenshot below shows the new AI agent sidebar, with an example of an AI agent interaction, starting with a question at the top (in green):

As we are doing a lot of updates, then next version will jump form 3.8.2 to 4.0. We have no definite date for this release yet, as there are still a few changes to work through. As a core team of 4 developers and with additional functionality requests and occasional bugs uncovered we will take some time to work through getting ready for the next version.

However, there are some very exciting changes coming changes. They are already available in the 4.0 “in development” code.

The major data structure change is to allow codes to be sub-codes of codes, as shown below. The second change, visible in the image, is the option to select between the “highlighter” coding stripes on the text, to also have more coding visibility options: vertical stripes beside the text, and also to have coloured underlining of the text.

These changes have also been tested with exports via the REFI-QDA export and subsequent import into Atlas.ti, MAXQDA, Nvivo, as shown below. It is important to state that we do not guarantee that exports and imports via REFI-QDA will work to and from QualCoder.

Muchas gracias to Lorenzo who has spent a lot of time and effort to make these changes to QualCoder.

We also have a mirrored repository of the source code and web manual documents now at Codeberg, a European site. Thanks to Justin M-P.

QualCoder – Codeberg.org

Achieving the goals of Vivekananda philosophy, NEP 2020 and Agenda 2030- Shri Prakash Chandra Kasera.
विवेकानंद दर्शन, NEP 2020 और एजेंडा 2030 के लक्ष्यों की प्राप्ति- श्री प्रकाश चन्द्र कसेरा

QualCoder is shown mainly from 14 minutes to 20 minutes in this PhD defense. From Bayalasi P.G. College, Jalalpur, Jaunpur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgMNMeSnSk

QualCoder now has it’s own domain name.

www.qualcoder.org

I came across this tutorial from UVic Libraries in Canada

https://uviclibraries.github.io/qualcoder/

Hello everyone,

This is an early updated (patch) release to the 3.8 release.

We recently identified bugs that may affect those who use the Auto-Code Exact Text feature (The left-most Auto-code button). The issues were selecting multiple files to auto-code, and the application of the Regex function.

• Fixed: Auto-Code Exact Text using Regex, The Regex text itself was stored and presented in reports, and not the text that the Regex referred to.
• Fixed: Auto-code when selecting multiple files the auto-code may not always scan through all the files.
• Fixed: Other minor bugs described in the Known Issues for 3.8 were also addressed.
• There is one new feature. There is an option to import from a Taguette.sqlite3 file.

https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/releases/tag/3.8.2