Limitations

LibreQDA doesn’t do everything involved in qualitative data analysis. Other software tools exist and may better meet your needs. Specifically, the current version of LibreQDA:

• can't process images, audio or video;
• converts all documents to a nearly raw text format, which can result in files that are difficult to read if source documents had complex formatting;
• instantly applies changes to each project for all team members, which can influence their reading and analysis of the documents;
• does not provide any advanced modules to explore the co-occurence of codes, such as a summary view of the contents in a matrix.

Depending on your data and methods, you may encounter other limitations with this software. It is important that you carefully evaluate the usefulness of this tool for your project. Ongoing development work on LibreQDA will allow for some of these limitations to be addressed. Be wary of any application that promises to meet all of your needs unconditionally.