Free Alternative
Free Alternative to Q Research Software for Crosstabs
If you have a CSV or XLSX export and need tables — not a full MR analysis package — build crosstabs and banners with significance testing in your browser. Free, no license, no signup, no upload.
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CSV or XLSX. Files are parsed locally before you enter the workspace.
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crosstabs.comis a free, browser-based alternative to Q Research Software for the crosstab essentials: open a CSV or XLSX export and build banner tables with chi-square tests, weights, and Cramér's V — no license, account, or upload required.
What Q Research Software is built for
Q is analysis software built specifically for market researchers, and that focus shows. It automates large-scale table production, applies sophisticated significance testing across whole table sets, handles tracker studies wave over wave, and reads the data formats common in commercial research. For analysts whose week is spent producing and checking tables, that automation pays for itself.
It is also a licensed desktop package with a professional learning curve. If your need is occasional — a survey export to cut by a few segments, a table or two for a deck — installing and licensing a specialist MR package is a heavier path than the task calls for.
Where a free browser tool fits
crosstabs.com keeps the core of the table workflow — cuts, weights, significance, and export — and removes everything that requires setup. Nothing to install, no license to arrange, and no data sent anywhere.
- Crosstabs with counts, row percentages, and column percentages
- Banner (batch) tables — repeated row variables against a banner variable
- Survey weights, with warnings where inference should be treated as approximate
- Chi-square, Fisher's exact test (2×2), Cramér's V, and 20+ association measures
- Significance flags and adjusted residuals to surface the cells worth reviewing
- CSV, XLSX, and PDF export for report-ready output
- Runs entirely in the browser — your data never leaves your device
One honest limitation: crosstabs.com reads CSV and XLSX, not SPSS .sav files. If your data is in .sav, export it to CSV or XLSX first.
When Q is the better choice
Choose Q when you are producing tables at commercial scale: tracker studies that repeat wave after wave, table specifications with detailed significance-testing rules, complex weighting schemes, projects that arrive as metadata-rich data files, or deliverables that have to regenerate automatically as new data lands. Professional MR analysts will also lean on its deeper statistical tooling beyond crosstabs.
crosstabs.com is a lightweight complement to that kind of package, not a replacement. It is at its best for ad-hoc work: a data export in hand, a banner to build, and tables needed today without procurement or installation.
How to switch — or use them together
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Export your data
Get respondent-level data into CSV or XLSX from your survey platform, data supplier, or stats package.
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Open it in the workspace
Drop the file into the crosstabs.com workspace. It is parsed locally in your browser — the file never leaves your device.
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Build banner tables
Pick row variables and a banner, apply weights if you have them, review significance flags, and export to CSV, XLSX, or PDF.
Unsure which test belongs on your table? See which statistical test to use or compare chi-square vs Fisher's exact.
Run crosstabs on your data export — free, no signup
Upload a CSV or XLSX. Everything runs in your browser; your file never leaves your device.
Open the workspace →Frequently asked questions
- Can I analyze my survey data in crosstabs.com instead of Q?
- Yes, if your data is in CSV or XLSX. Export respondent-level data from your survey platform or convert your data file to CSV or XLSX, then open it in the crosstabs.com workspace. It is parsed locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded — and you can build crosstabs and banner tables with significance testing right away.
- Does crosstabs.com open SPSS .sav files?
- No. crosstabs.com reads CSV and XLSX files. If your data lives in an SPSS .sav file, export or convert it to CSV or XLSX first (most survey platforms and stats tools can do this), then open the converted file in the workspace.
- Does crosstabs.com replace Q Research Software?
- No. Q is a purpose-built market-research analysis package, and it is the stronger choice for professional analysts running large trackers, complex significance-testing specifications, and automated table production. crosstabs.com covers the lightweight end: a free, in-browser way to get crosstabs with significance testing from a CSV or XLSX export, with no license or setup.