Quala covers the qualitative workflow end to end, on one Mac, with nothing sent to a server.
Audio (m4a, mp3, wav), video (mp4, mov), Word documents, PDFs, plain text, or a spreadsheet of open-ended survey responses (.xlsx, .csv). Drop a file on the start page and Quala builds the project around it.
Apple's speech recognition runs on your Mac. Interviews, focus groups, and video sessions become timestamped transcripts you can play back segment by segment. No cloud transcription service, no per-minute fees.
Codes with real definitions, excerpt-level coding with memos, and full undo. ReliCheck Intelligence suggests codes from your own codebook, locally, and never applies anything without you.
Group codes into themes with memos, and pin the quotes you will actually use in the manuscript. Everything stays linked back to its source and segment.
Corpus overview, code frequencies, code-by-source patterns, co-occurrence, and theme coverage, each one click from the excerpts behind it.
Reflexivity, limitations, negative cases, and member checks live inside the project, and every coding action is logged to an append-only audit trail. Committee-ready by construction.
Copy a coded transcript with highlights and code tags, paste into Word, and it arrives formatted. Export a presentation packet for Findings Studio on iPad.
Send to MM Studio packages your sources, transcripts, codes, themes, and quotes so ReliCheck MM Studio opens the qual strand fully coded, ready to meet your quantitative data.
Quala is for interview studies, evaluations, and open-ended survey analysis: real projects on real deadlines. It is not trying to be a 400-feature enterprise suite; it is trying to get you from recordings to defensible findings without your data ever leaving the room.