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Delve is intuitive AI assisted qualitative analysis software that helps you find rigorous insights without the steep learning curve—no shortcuts, just efficient, collaborative research.
Whether for a dissertation or research project, Delve ensures organized, efficient qualitative analysis while preserving the human touch in drawing meaningful conclusions.
We both wanted a software that was intuitive and user-friendly to code our dissertation research transcripts, and Delve is it!!
I didn't have to waste any time figuring out a program because everything on Delve is so straightforward and intuitive.
Delve is focused on coding qualitative data and creating meaning out of it. To me, that is really valuable. I don't have to think about anything else when I'm using it. It's me and the data with very little in-between.
You're the expert—your insights and knowledge drive qualitative research. But why spend hours on repetitive tasks? Delve AI lightens the load, streamlining coding so you can focus on the meaningful work only you can do.
Delve's AI Chat gives you someone to talk to about your research, helping you explore alternative perspectives, refine codes, and answer questions you'd normally ask your dissertation chair or peers.
You deserve simple qualitative software that lets you focus on insights, not the tool.
Research analysis is an evolving process of finding and refining themes. Our flexible interface lets you nest and merge codes to match your evolving insights.
Keep all your codes, notes and snippets organized in one central place. Delve's cloud-based capabilities allow you to update and evolve your codebook wherever you are.
Your team can independently code the same transcript, then compare their results side by side. Align the team faster and ensure consistent, reliable insights.
“Incredibly easy to use and the AI feature is helpful with exploring codes I may have missed initially.” - Christopher S.
We were up and running with Delve within minutes. It was very intuitive to use, with very quick setup. We were able to easily collaborate and facilitate our thematic analysis process without a steep learning curve and at a very reasonable price. The help guides and learning center were also great resources for those on the team unfamiliar with qualitative coding.
Nate S.
Importing my transcription data was simple and the software itself is very intuitive. Being able to to see and easily access all of my codes in one place was especially gratifying after finishing the process of coding and made data analysis much easier and more efficient. The webinars Delve offers on coding were invaluable to my own coding process. The pricing is also very reasonable.
Noah D.
Amazing and a great customer support! Delve is really user friendly - easy and simple, yet effective. A great tool to help you deliver quality insights with tight timelines and on a budget. If you an expert, you'll fly through it, otherwise the tool itself teaches you indirectly and guides you along methods.
Roxana B.
My professors were also impressed with how I was able to use the platform. When justifying the themes related to my study, I was able to use Delve's display to show the coding that supported those findings. I've heard horror stories about old-school 'coding' from professors when they had to highlight, cut out, making piles, and sort through quotes to develop themes. Delve's platform made coding simple and I was easily able to navigate the tools.
Ryan A.
Overall, great product with a ton of potential and uses. This tool makes it easy for multiple people to synthesize and analyze qualitative data at the same time. My colleague and I have been using Delve for about a year and it's been really beneficial to our team and organization. I love the way it's organized and the work that is being done to optimize it.
Liam C.
Using Delve saves me tremendous amounts of time, and brings my research insights more to life! It saves me loads of time when preparing a report and helps me digest qualitative themes more efficiently. Delve is extremely easy to use and intuitive. I am quickly able to navigate to great quotes or snippets to support the points I am making, and wade through large amounts of data (transcripts, open-end survey results, etc) in an effortless way.
Tamra F.
We use delve for qualitative coding for our consulting work. We absolutely depend on it. Delve is incredibly easy to use, which makes it great for projects with multiple people working them-there's no learning curve or lengthy onboarding process. The Delve team also provides top-notch customer service and is extremely responsive.
Kieran H.
Delve is great for conducting qualitative research Delve was easy to use. I used it for my doctoral research and it helped me to organize my interview information into codes and categories. In addition, it made it easy for me to search within all of my interview transcripts for specific words or phrases.
David S.
I have used this to analyze my qualitative research for my dissertation. I love how I can select the codes, export the information into Excel, and organize/change it as I go. This is the most amazing resource for qualitative analysis. I have loved the resources they have provided including the workshops and tools. The system is very easy to use and really helps with analysis.
Jasmine P.
Delve is extremely easy and intuitive to use. It works easily when collaborating with others on a qualitative project. When coding I like the flexibility of this software to rename, regroup as you conduct your analysis. There is an extensive resource library for questions/how to's but also highly responsive customer service if you need help. The Delve team is open to feedback and continuously improving the software.
Meredith M.
Delve is very easy to learn and use individually or as a team. Using Delve has shortened our time to process text for coding and organizing for presentations. Used with time codes, it can also shorten video editing times. We've used several other products and found Delve to be a perfect complement to our workflow. If you can believe it, we actually had been using MS Excel, finding other products in this category too expensive and complex for our needs. Delve has made this work fun again!
Kim K.
Delve has helped me reduce my hands-on analysis time that I was doing manually: reading Word transcripts, copying and pasting verbatims into a separate document, making notes about findings in yet another document, and writing into a PPT file. Great feature set is very intuitive to learn and start using right away. Interface makes it very easy to construct codes, highlight and code text and view excerpts in different ways. Being able to code as little as a word or as much as a paragraph (or multiple paragraphs) results in more robust coding. Knowing that I can focus solely on coding and let the platform categorize the data for me means coding takes much less time than doing it by hand. Once I have coded everything, I can then view the data in different ways, start my analysis and find the story.
Maria V.
I continue to be impressed by the ease of use and the many ways I can integrate the coding and quotes into my dissertation. I love that it is web-based and easy to use. I needed software to assist me in coding my interview for my dissertation. I saw a free tutorial on how to code using various methods. I became sold on the product from the video though it was not being overtly pushed. It addressed what I needed in a reasonably priced package. The customer service & follow up are top notch.
Laurie B.
My experience has been beyond what I expected (excellent)....very valuable and easy to use software I want to say how grateful I am for Delve. I fellow classmate highly recommended Delve after we became frustrated with other coding software. We both wanted a software that was intuitive and user-friendly to code our dissertation research transcripts, and Delve is it!! The easy step-by-step tutorials are a wonderful resource.
Maria S.
I used this for qualitative research, mainly coding and analysis of interview data. I have already recommended Delve to colleagues and will definitely continue to use it in the future. I loved how easy it was for me to get started coding my interview transcripts right away. I didn't have to waste any time figuring out a program because everything on Delve is so straightforward and intuitive. The education pricing is so inexpensive that Delve would be highly appropriate for students just learning how to code as well as seasoned researchers. It's also flexible enough that you only pay for the time that you're using the program - in my case I used it all the time at first, then paused my membership and reopened it when I had new data and analysis to do.
Teri M.
Delve helped me to organize and code qualitative research for my doctoral dissertation. It was very easy to use and intuitive in its use. The tools I used took me from organizing my transcripts to first and second-round coding through thematic analysis. Whenever I had a question, I immediately received a response. Delve's cost allows it to be accessible for everyone, especially for students. I have recommended Delve to other colleagues as well. I would use Delve again. It is easy for the first-time user or someone who has more experience.
Lisa G.
My overall experience with Delve was excellent. I was so thrilled that Delve showed up when I searched for "coding for researching" on YouTube. Delve is really a well thought out software, and I am extremely happy with all the features I used. I will give it a six stars if I could. I highly recommend this software for coding qualitative research. All the features were well thought out, easy to use, and very intuitive. The customer support is superb!
Sharon G.
I had a demo of this software (maybe more than once) and kind of forgot about it until I had a project with 50 IDIs! The pain of slogging through 50 transcripts reminded me of Delve and I signed up on the spot. I've used it on every project since. It's so easy. I was a bit scarred by some earlier products (NVivo) that were so time consuming and demanding. This is a breeze to use. It's totally streamlined by analysis and reporting.
Anne B.
It was so easy to use when organizing and coding my data from interviews and observations. Fantastic tool.
Richard P.
I am in an EdD program and we took on a short 7 week project around the impacts of COVID on education and what first seemed like a daunting experience was made much more possible by the use of Delve. We wrapped up the class last night and the conversation was very rich. I don't think that would have ben possible in such a short time without this tool. The ease of use was impressive. I am new to coding qualitative data and found Delve to be intuitive and thoughtfully organized.
Bill T.
So, many of the seminal textbooks eulogise about NVivo. Well, I can tell you that by comparison, Delve is exponentially superior. Ideal for Master's level dissertations, research projects, and any other similar uses. I have experienced no security or ethical issues and received excellent 'real-time' customer service when I became 'stuck'. Without Delve, I worry that my final dissertation would not be submitted by its due date.
David H.
Super quick learning curve. Very intuitive and clear interface. Coding process is simple. Extremely dependable app. Fast search functions. [MAXQDA, NVivo and ATLAS.ti] have insufferable learning curves just to use basic features and to achieve usable data.
Eric L.
Delve was incredibly easy to use. I've used NVivo in the past for qualitative data analysis and it's hard to set up, the UI is difficult to navigate and the platform unreliable, but Delve was none of those things. It was incredibly easy to import and manage my data and then go about the coding for my research project.
Andrea S.
I used Delve to analyse twelve one-hour interviews with heritage school leaders from a range of cultural backgrounds. The data was rich, nuanced, and deeply contextual, requiring a tool that could support thoughtful, systematic analysis without adding technical complexity. Delve delivered exactly that. One of the most impressive aspects of Delve is its intuitive coding interface. The visual layout made it easy to organise and refine codes, helping me stay focused on the data rather than the mechanics of the software.
Sharon M.
Among the many things that Delve brings to the table, my favorite feature is the Grouping/Categorizing and the Search function. These may not appear as complex features but compared to traditional tools, such as pen and paper or word processors, they prove to be very useful when conducting qualitative analysis. Through Delve, I was able to spend more time on "analyzing" than "finding" and "locating."
Krista I.
Delve stood out in the market for being really intuitive and easy to use. There were a lot of other options available but they all seemed a bit intense and complicated. For a novice, I really appreciated Delve's simplicity and I wasn't disappointed: and it took me about two minutes to understand so I could begin my analysis immediately. It is really seamless and elegant to work with. A true pleasure - if it's possible to say that of thematic analysis!
Naomi S.
I found myself feeling overwhelmed at the idea of printing and reading through all my transcripts, physically highlighting in different colours and creating a massive table to write all my snippets in. I finished all of my analysis in 10 days... Something that I was anticipating would take a month.
Luna V.
Simplicity for a novice, great bite size training videos. Wonderful support videos to my email inbox without overdoing it. Helped me lead the other co-authors in coding, developing the themes and writing our paper.
Colin P.
The UI/UX is highly friendly for new researchers, but the underlying engines are strong enough for heavy-duty qualitative and quantitative research. The customer support team is amazing, and the best thing is they do not generate AI-like or automated emails, which is very good because they will directly help you with any troubles you have. I only had 3 days to do my data analysis and learning Nvivo from scratch is extremely time-consuming.
Thao T.
Delve was very intuitive and easy to use. I liked how many resources the Delve team made freely available via their blog and YouTube channels. These resources were incredible helpful, and a very great way for a new qualitative researcher to learn. I also appreciate the low cost and ability to use Delve when I need it, and pause my subscription when I don't need it. I felt more comfortable with the quality of product with Delve and also loved all of their other articles and YouTube videos so much that it was worth it to switch [from Quirkos].
Kayla H.
Delve is a great tool for qualitative market researchers who have numerous transcripts to wade through. Being able to tag and categorize quotes makes writing a report so much quicker and easier. I also really like the ability to add categories 'on the fly' while I'm reading and the ability to export out the quotes by category/participants into Excel makes the tool even better.
Lisa H.
Delve was easy to set up and get started right away. 14 day free trial was generous, as is maintaining retention of your data when you cancel/pause your subscription. I actually completed my project within this trial period, but was so appreciative of the value it delivered to the project I paid for 1 month anyway. Delve made categorising/coding qualitative data easy and allowed for easy identification of key themes in the data.
Diarmid L.
We were up and running with Delve within minutes. It was very intuitive to use, with very quick setup. We were able to easily collaborate and facilitate our thematic analysis process without a steep learning curve and at a very reasonable price. The help guides and learning center were also great resources for those on the team unfamiliar with qualitative coding.
Nate S.
Importing my transcription data was simple and the software itself is very intuitive. Being able to to see and easily access all of my codes in one place was especially gratifying after finishing the process of coding and made data analysis much easier and more efficient. The webinars Delve offers on coding were invaluable to my own coding process. The pricing is also very reasonable.
Noah D.
Amazing and a great customer support! Delve is really user friendly - easy and simple, yet effective. A great tool to help you deliver quality insights with tight timelines and on a budget. If you an expert, you'll fly through it, otherwise the tool itself teaches you indirectly and guides you along methods.
Roxana B.
My professors were also impressed with how I was able to use the platform. When justifying the themes related to my study, I was able to use Delve's display to show the coding that supported those findings. I've heard horror stories about old-school 'coding' from professors when they had to highlight, cut out, making piles, and sort through quotes to develop themes. Delve's platform made coding simple and I was easily able to navigate the tools.
Ryan A.
Overall, great product with a ton of potential and uses. This tool makes it easy for multiple people to synthesize and analyze qualitative data at the same time. My colleague and I have been using Delve for about a year and it's been really beneficial to our team and organization. I love the way it's organized and the work that is being done to optimize it.
Liam C.
Using Delve saves me tremendous amounts of time, and brings my research insights more to life! It saves me loads of time when preparing a report and helps me digest qualitative themes more efficiently. Delve is extremely easy to use and intuitive. I am quickly able to navigate to great quotes or snippets to support the points I am making, and wade through large amounts of data (transcripts, open-end survey results, etc) in an effortless way.
Tamra F.
We use delve for qualitative coding for our consulting work. We absolutely depend on it. Delve is incredibly easy to use, which makes it great for projects with multiple people working them-there's no learning curve or lengthy onboarding process. The Delve team also provides top-notch customer service and is extremely responsive.
Kieran H.
Delve is great for conducting qualitative research Delve was easy to use. I used it for my doctoral research and it helped me to organize my interview information into codes and categories. In addition, it made it easy for me to search within all of my interview transcripts for specific words or phrases.
David S.
I have used this to analyze my qualitative research for my dissertation. I love how I can select the codes, export the information into Excel, and organize/change it as I go. This is the most amazing resource for qualitative analysis. I have loved the resources they have provided including the workshops and tools. The system is very easy to use and really helps with analysis.
Jasmine P.
Delve is extremely easy and intuitive to use. It works easily when collaborating with others on a qualitative project. When coding I like the flexibility of this software to rename, regroup as you conduct your analysis. There is an extensive resource library for questions/how to's but also highly responsive customer service if you need help. The Delve team is open to feedback and continuously improving the software.
Meredith M.
Delve is very easy to learn and use individually or as a team. Using Delve has shortened our time to process text for coding and organizing for presentations. Used with time codes, it can also shorten video editing times. We've used several other products and found Delve to be a perfect complement to our workflow. If you can believe it, we actually had been using MS Excel, finding other products in this category too expensive and complex for our needs. Delve has made this work fun again!
Kim K.
Delve has helped me reduce my hands-on analysis time that I was doing manually: reading Word transcripts, copying and pasting verbatims into a separate document, making notes about findings in yet another document, and writing into a PPT file. Great feature set is very intuitive to learn and start using right away. Interface makes it very easy to construct codes, highlight and code text and view excerpts in different ways. Being able to code as little as a word or as much as a paragraph (or multiple paragraphs) results in more robust coding. Knowing that I can focus solely on coding and let the platform categorize the data for me means coding takes much less time than doing it by hand. Once I have coded everything, I can then view the data in different ways, start my analysis and find the story.
Maria V.
I continue to be impressed by the ease of use and the many ways I can integrate the coding and quotes into my dissertation. I love that it is web-based and easy to use. I needed software to assist me in coding my interview for my dissertation. I saw a free tutorial on how to code using various methods. I became sold on the product from the video though it was not being overtly pushed. It addressed what I needed in a reasonably priced package. The customer service & follow up are top notch.
Laurie B.
My experience has been beyond what I expected (excellent)....very valuable and easy to use software I want to say how grateful I am for Delve. I fellow classmate highly recommended Delve after we became frustrated with other coding software. We both wanted a software that was intuitive and user-friendly to code our dissertation research transcripts, and Delve is it!! The easy step-by-step tutorials are a wonderful resource.
Maria S.
I used this for qualitative research, mainly coding and analysis of interview data. I have already recommended Delve to colleagues and will definitely continue to use it in the future. I loved how easy it was for me to get started coding my interview transcripts right away. I didn't have to waste any time figuring out a program because everything on Delve is so straightforward and intuitive. The education pricing is so inexpensive that Delve would be highly appropriate for students just learning how to code as well as seasoned researchers. It's also flexible enough that you only pay for the time that you're using the program - in my case I used it all the time at first, then paused my membership and reopened it when I had new data and analysis to do.
Teri M.
Delve helped me to organize and code qualitative research for my doctoral dissertation. It was very easy to use and intuitive in its use. The tools I used took me from organizing my transcripts to first and second-round coding through thematic analysis. Whenever I had a question, I immediately received a response. Delve's cost allows it to be accessible for everyone, especially for students. I have recommended Delve to other colleagues as well. I would use Delve again. It is easy for the first-time user or someone who has more experience.
Lisa G.
My overall experience with Delve was excellent. I was so thrilled that Delve showed up when I searched for "coding for researching" on YouTube. Delve is really a well thought out software, and I am extremely happy with all the features I used. I will give it a six stars if I could. I highly recommend this software for coding qualitative research. All the features were well thought out, easy to use, and very intuitive. The customer support is superb!
Sharon G.
I had a demo of this software (maybe more than once) and kind of forgot about it until I had a project with 50 IDIs! The pain of slogging through 50 transcripts reminded me of Delve and I signed up on the spot. I've used it on every project since. It's so easy. I was a bit scarred by some earlier products (NVivo) that were so time consuming and demanding. This is a breeze to use. It's totally streamlined by analysis and reporting.
Anne B.
It was so easy to use when organizing and coding my data from interviews and observations. Fantastic tool.
Richard P.
I am in an EdD program and we took on a short 7 week project around the impacts of COVID on education and what first seemed like a daunting experience was made much more possible by the use of Delve. We wrapped up the class last night and the conversation was very rich. I don't think that would have ben possible in such a short time without this tool. The ease of use was impressive. I am new to coding qualitative data and found Delve to be intuitive and thoughtfully organized.
Bill T.
So, many of the seminal textbooks eulogise about NVivo. Well, I can tell you that by comparison, Delve is exponentially superior. Ideal for Master's level dissertations, research projects, and any other similar uses. I have experienced no security or ethical issues and received excellent 'real-time' customer service when I became 'stuck'. Without Delve, I worry that my final dissertation would not be submitted by its due date.
David H.
Super quick learning curve. Very intuitive and clear interface. Coding process is simple. Extremely dependable app. Fast search functions. [MAXQDA, NVivo and ATLAS.ti] have insufferable learning curves just to use basic features and to achieve usable data.
Eric L.
Delve was incredibly easy to use. I've used NVivo in the past for qualitative data analysis and it's hard to set up, the UI is difficult to navigate and the platform unreliable, but Delve was none of those things. It was incredibly easy to import and manage my data and then go about the coding for my research project.
Andrea S.
I used Delve to analyse twelve one-hour interviews with heritage school leaders from a range of cultural backgrounds. The data was rich, nuanced, and deeply contextual, requiring a tool that could support thoughtful, systematic analysis without adding technical complexity. Delve delivered exactly that. One of the most impressive aspects of Delve is its intuitive coding interface. The visual layout made it easy to organise and refine codes, helping me stay focused on the data rather than the mechanics of the software.
Sharon M.
Among the many things that Delve brings to the table, my favorite feature is the Grouping/Categorizing and the Search function. These may not appear as complex features but compared to traditional tools, such as pen and paper or word processors, they prove to be very useful when conducting qualitative analysis. Through Delve, I was able to spend more time on "analyzing" than "finding" and "locating."
Krista I.
Delve stood out in the market for being really intuitive and easy to use. There were a lot of other options available but they all seemed a bit intense and complicated. For a novice, I really appreciated Delve's simplicity and I wasn't disappointed: and it took me about two minutes to understand so I could begin my analysis immediately. It is really seamless and elegant to work with. A true pleasure - if it's possible to say that of thematic analysis!
Naomi S.
I found myself feeling overwhelmed at the idea of printing and reading through all my transcripts, physically highlighting in different colours and creating a massive table to write all my snippets in. I finished all of my analysis in 10 days... Something that I was anticipating would take a month.
Luna V.
Simplicity for a novice, great bite size training videos. Wonderful support videos to my email inbox without overdoing it. Helped me lead the other co-authors in coding, developing the themes and writing our paper.
Colin P.
The UI/UX is highly friendly for new researchers, but the underlying engines are strong enough for heavy-duty qualitative and quantitative research. The customer support team is amazing, and the best thing is they do not generate AI-like or automated emails, which is very good because they will directly help you with any troubles you have. I only had 3 days to do my data analysis and learning Nvivo from scratch is extremely time-consuming.
Thao T.
Delve was very intuitive and easy to use. I liked how many resources the Delve team made freely available via their blog and YouTube channels. These resources were incredible helpful, and a very great way for a new qualitative researcher to learn. I also appreciate the low cost and ability to use Delve when I need it, and pause my subscription when I don't need it. I felt more comfortable with the quality of product with Delve and also loved all of their other articles and YouTube videos so much that it was worth it to switch [from Quirkos].
Kayla H.
Delve is a great tool for qualitative market researchers who have numerous transcripts to wade through. Being able to tag and categorize quotes makes writing a report so much quicker and easier. I also really like the ability to add categories 'on the fly' while I'm reading and the ability to export out the quotes by category/participants into Excel makes the tool even better.
Lisa H.
Delve was easy to set up and get started right away. 14 day free trial was generous, as is maintaining retention of your data when you cancel/pause your subscription. I actually completed my project within this trial period, but was so appreciative of the value it delivered to the project I paid for 1 month anyway. Delve made categorising/coding qualitative data easy and allowed for easy identification of key themes in the data.
Diarmid L.
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