Quirkos is a CAQDAS software package for the qualitative analysis of text data, commonly used in social science.

Although simpler to use, it lacks some of the features present in other commercial CAQDAS packages such as multimedia support.

[4] The interface is unique, in that it simultaneously displays visualisations and text data[5] and has identical capabilities on Windows, macOS and Linux.

The thematic framework is represented with a series of circles, the size of each indicating the amount of data coded to them.

[6] There are few features for quantitative or statistical analysis of text data, however project files can be exported for analysis in statistical software such as SPSS or R. Quirkos is extensively used in many different fields which utilise qualitative research, including sociology,[7] health,[8][9] media studies,[10] school of education[11][12] and human geography.