Qualitative analysis, native to your Mac.
Import interviews and field notes. Code excerpts with a selection. Follow every thread back to its evidence. Export reports you can paste straight into your paper.
Download for macOS
Built for the actual work: read, code, retrieve, write up. No cloud, no accounts, no subscription.
txt, Markdown, Word (.docx), RTF — or paste text straight in. Chinese encodings handled. Dropping a folder imports everything inside.
Select a passage, hit “Add Code”, and pick from your code list — or create a new code on the spot. Highlights paint themselves.
The heart of it: click a code and jump to any of its excerpts — Weft takes you to the exact passage and flashes it in place.
Nine-color palette, drag a code onto another to nest it, merge duplicate codes — the codebook stays tidy as the analysis grows.
Analytical notes live on the code and on the document — right where you’re reading, never in a separate pile to maintain.
Export every coded quote as CSV, Markdown, or styled HTML — grouped by code, ready for the write-up.
Weft speaks REFI-QDA — the exchange standard built by the QDA software industry. Your project moves between Weft and NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, QualCoder, and others, in both directions.
Export .qdpx projects and .qdc codebooks. Import projects exported by any other REFI-QDA software.
Weft is fully offline. Your documents, codes, and memos live in a local database on your Mac — no account, no sync, no telemetry. What you analyze is nobody’s business but yours.
Download Weft for macOS