NVIVO 12 FOR WINDOWS
Powerful analysis tools for qualitative and mixed-methods research
Our world is exploding with data – text, videos, social media and more. Making sense of it without the right research tools is like looking for a needle in a haystack. See the big picture fast with NVivo 12 – the most powerful software for gaining richer insights from qualitative and mixed-methods data. NVivo 12 for Windows supports the widest range of data sources and offers the most advanced analysis tools in qualitative research software. Collect and organize data. Then analyze, visualize and share. You'll find smarter insights and make better decisions with NVivo. Contact us for a demo at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call +44 (0) 203 695 7810 |
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NVivo Transcription
60% of NVivo users are doing their own transcription, taking vital time away from data analysis and core research.
Now you can simply upload your audio file from NVivo 12 and let NVivo Transcription do the rest. With good quality audio, you can expect up to 90% accuracy and a file transcribed in a timespan of half the length of the audio. You can then make amendments, notes and tag speakers using a specialized editor and directly import transcribed files into NVivo 12.
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Enhanced support for mixed methods analysis
Easily cross tabulate your data
View coding distribution across a population by cross tabulating theme nodes against cases, like people or places, and attributes like age or occupation, so you can quickly quantify coding data for comparison.
Quickly exchange data with SPSS
With NVivo 12 it’s easy to exchange data with SPSS.
View your data through different lenses
Easily visualize and understand cross tabulated data, and create a snapshot that can guide writing up findings.
Redesigned NVivo 12 for Windows navigation
It’s more intuitive so you can focus on your research, not learning software.
Take advantage of a redesigned ribbon
Easily explore your data with commonly used commands at the front of the ribbon, simplified default tabs and new contextual tabs that show options relevant to what you’re working on.
Customize your view for quick access
Take control and pin your frequently used folders and items in navigation view for quick access to what you need.
Find items faster
The Find bar is now easier to use and results are returned live while you type, so you can find things faster.
Cleaner look and feel with more intuitive language
The left-hand side navigation view is now cleaner, offers you more control and uses common words like Files and Codes, instead of terms like Sources and Nodes, helping new NVivo users get up and running faster.
Details
NVivo for Windows editions
NVivo 12 for Windows delivers powerful, time-saving tools that help you ask questions of your data in a more efficient way. Store all your data in one place and begin exploring themes from the moment you start your project. Available as NVivo 12 Pro, Plus or Teams, there’s an edition to suit your research needs.
- NVivo 12 Pro - supports a wide range of data sources. From text to surveys and social media, it offers advanced data management, query and visualization tools, so you can ask increasingly complex questions of your data.
- NVivo 12 Plus - All the functionality of NVivo Pro plus powerful social network and research automation tools for deeper understanding of social themes and sentiments.
- NVivo for Teams - For streamlined, secure research collaboration by teams of all sizes. Ideal for complex research projects with larger volumes of data.
NVivo 12 Pro

No matter how you collect your data, NVivo 12 Pro for Windows has you covered. Import, manage and analyze text, audio, video, emails, images, spreadsheets, online surveys, web content and social media. With advanced data management, query and visualization tools, go exploring with NVivo.
- Import and analyze text, images, video, spreadsheets, online surveys, web and social media data in virtually any language
- Import, create or conveniently order NVivo-ready transcripts from TranscribeMe
- Organize information using theme, case, in-vivo and relationship coding
- Save time by autocoding structured data
- Review your coding with coding stripes and highlighting
- Keep track of thoughts and ideas with memos and annotations
- Ask questions of your data using text search, word frequency, coding, matrix coding and coding comparison queries
- Use framework analysis to condense large volumes of data into a summary of topics
- Visualize and share your data with a comprehensive suite of visualizations
- Directly import surveys from SurveyMonkey via API
- Import data from reference management software like EndNote, Zotero, Refworks and Mendeley
- Import from note-taking software OneNote and Evernote - import notes directly from Evernote via API
- Exchange data with Excel, Access and IBM SPSS Statistics for mixed methods research
- Export items to easily share your data, analysis and findings
- Work in a small team using project merging, or use NVivo for Teams for real time collaboration
- Access NVivo for Mac at no extra cost
Evolving in your research?
If you begin with NVivo Pro and your research needs change, simply upgrade to NVivo 12 Plus for Windows for the latest in research automation and social network analysis.
NVivo 12 Plus

NVivo 12 Plus for Windows offers all the functionality of NVivo 12 Pro for Windows plus innovative social network analysis and automation tools. Now with enhanced support for mixed-methods data, faster loading times and easier navigation, NVivo 12 Plus can help you unlock new insights in minutes.
- Import and analyze text, images, video, spreadsheets, online surveys, web and social media data in virtually any language.
- Import, create or conveniently order NVivo-ready transcripts from TranscribeMe.
- Organize information using theme, case, in-vivo and relationship coding.
- Save time by auto coding structured data, and using pattern-based auto coding to code large volumes of text quickly.
- Use automated insights to automatically code text content by theme and sentiment.
- Use framework analysis to condense large volumes of data into a summary of topics.
- Keep track of thoughts and ideas with memos and annotations.
- Visualize and share your data with a comprehensive suite of visualizations.
- Ask questions of your data using powerful queries.
- Discover influencers and study the information flow in a network using social network analysis.
- Directly import surveys from SurveyMonkey via API.
- Import and manage information from reference management software like EndNote, Zotero, Refworks and Mendeley.
- Import from note-taking software OneNote and Evernote - import notes directly from Evernote via API.
- Exchange data with quantitative analysis tools such as Excel, Access and IBM SPSS Statistics for mixed methods research.
- Export items to easily share your data, analysis and findings.
- Work in a small team using project merging, or connect to NVivo for Teams for real time collaboration and secure teamwork.
Explore the features and functionality of NVivo 12 Mac, NVivo 12 Pro and NVivo 12 Plus to discover the NVivo that’s right for you.
Pro
No matter how you collect your data, NVivo 12 Pro for Windows has you covered. Import, manage and analyze text, audio, video, emails, images, spreadsheets, online surveys, web content and social media. With advanced data management, query and visualization tools, go exploring with NVivo.
Easy to learn and to use
Only see tabs and commands when you need them using our redesigned navigation toolbar. Easily group project items according to research tasks using the Navigation View. Thanks to a streamlined layout, classifying your data and working with cases has never been easier.
Organize information automatically
Pin your frequently used folders and items in navigation view for quick access to what you need. Store your thinking in memos for faster, more transparent and reliable reporting. Use annotations to make notes as you work so you don’t lose ideas you might want to explore later.
Enhance your mixed methods analysis
Use crosstabs to analyze themes by one or two attributes – like age or occupation – or by cases for enhanced mixed methods research. Totals are automatically calculated and the results can be saved as a SPSS file (.sav) for further statistical analysis.
Ask questions of your data
Use queries to ask complex questions and identify new meaning in your data. Test ideas, explore patterns and see connections between themes, topics, people and places. Look for emerging themes, find words and discover concepts using text search and word frequency queries.
Visualize your research
Visualize your data with the most comprehensive range of visualizations: charts, mind maps, word clouds, explore, comparison diagrams and many more. When you’re ready to share your findings, it’s easy to export your visualizations into reports and presentations.
Import and share your findings
Import SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics surveys directly into NVivo. Import and share information from Microsoft Excel, IBM SPSS Statistics and reference management software. Order transcripts from NVivo which then sync with your other data. Import notes collected on-the-go from Evernote and OneNote.
Plus
NVivo 12 Plus for Windows offers all the functionality of NVivo 12 Pro for Windows plus innovative social network analysis and automation tools. Now with enhanced support for mixed-methods data, faster loading times and easier navigation, NVivo 12 Plus can help you unlock new insights in minutes.
Automate coding
Save time by automatically grouping information such as themes and positive or negative sentiment from large volumes of text in minutes. Develop preliminary results at the start of a project, or validate your thinking as you work. Teach NVivo how to code your data using pattern-based auto coding to automatically categorize and classify data.
Analyze social networks
Discover influencers and opinion leaders and study the information flow using Social Network Analysis. Automatically create sociogram visualizations to see network relationships and interactions, and use metrics to discover critical network roles like influencers, connectors and brokers. See who’s tweeting and re-tweeting who.
Enhanced data visualization
Visualize how a particular central person is connected to other people, and how those people are connected to each other with egocentric sociograms. See the connections, or lack of connections between a group of people with network sociograms. And visualize Twitter datasets to see networks of Twitter users and how they are connected with social media sociograms.
Easy to learn and to use
Only see tabs and commands when you need them using our redesigned navigation toolbar. Easily group project items according to research tasks using the Navigation View. Thanks to a streamlined layout, classifying your data and working with cases has never been easier.
Organize information automatically
Pin your frequently used folders and items in navigation view for quick access to what you need. Store your thinking in memos for faster, more transparent and reliable reporting. Use annotations to make notes as you work so you don’t lose ideas you might want to explore later.
Enhance your mixed methods analysis
Use crosstabs to analyze themes by one or two attributes – like age or occupation – or by cases for enhanced mixed methods research. Totals are automatically calculated and the results can be saved as a SPSS file (.sav) for further statistical analysis.
Ask questions of your data
Use queries to ask complex questions and identify new meaning in your data. Test ideas, explore patterns and see connections between themes, topics, people and places. Look for emerging themes, find words and discover concepts using text search and word frequency queries.
Visualize your research
Visualize your data with the most comprehensive range of visualizations: charts, mind maps, word clouds, explore, comparison diagrams and many more. When you’re ready to share your findings, it’s easy to export your visualizations into reports and presentations.
Import and share your findings
Import SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics surveys directly into NVivo. Import and share information from Microsoft Excel, IBM SPSS Statistics and reference management software. Order transcripts from NVivo which then sync with your other data. Import notes collected on-the-go from Evernote and OneNote.
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NVivo Feature Comparison
Explore the features and functionality of NVivo 12 Mac, NVivo 12 Pro and NVivo 12 Plus to discover the NVivo that’s right for you.
See a detailed NVivo feature comparison here:
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Licensing and pricing
Educational
If you're a student, teacher or an academic who is learning, instructing or undertaking research at an educational institution such as a university or college (excluding teaching hospitals) then you may be eligible for education pricing. You must be using QSR software for teaching or educational purposes only.
Educational pricing applies as well to Not for Profit organizations such as regístered charities.
Pricing for schools and universities
Government
If you belong to a Governmental institution government pricing applies.
Pricing for Government institutions
Standard
If you belong to a non-educational, non-governmental organization, standard pricing applies.
Pricing for Corporations and individuals
Student
Student pricing requires a student proof.
Pricing for Students
Single user licenses
Single user licenses are for 1 exclusive individual to be used on up to two devices. If you buy 2 or more licenses, 10% discount applies. For 4 or more licenses, you are entitled to ‘right to use’ pricing.
Enterprise License Agreements (ELA) and Right-to-use licenses
For larger volumes it is suitable with an ELA or right-to-use license which effectively mean you are leasing the software and pay annually. An ELA drastically decrease the adminstrative time spent on licensing and include upgrades to new versions.
Contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or +46 31 604 380 for more information on ELA and right-to-use pricing.
Requirements
System requirements
- Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1, or later
- 1.2 GHz single-core processor (32-bit) 1.4 GHz single-core processor (64-bit) or faster
- 2GB RAM or more, recommended 4GB RAM or more
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution, recommended 1680 x 1050 screen resolution or higher
- Approximately 5 GB of available hard-disk space – or more depending on data storage needs.
If you want to install and use NVivo's supplementary add-on, NCapture, you will also require either Internet Explorer 11 or later, or Google Chrome 44 or late
Support
We offer technical support for all our NVivo customers.
As a first step you should visit our support pages. Here you can find solutions for common issues as well as find many other useful resources.
If you cannot find the answer, please contact us using our support form.
Please state your support case as detailed as possible when you contact our support. Always remember to inform what product version you are using and what operating system (both platform and version).