QualBuddy0.2.80
29 September 2026
- Account & trial became one calm sheet that says where you are.
- In Focus, the sidebar comes back from the left edge, or with ⌘B on Mac / Ctrl+B on Windows, without leaving Focus.
- The timer is called Focus Harvest.
What’s new · October 2026
What’s new
in 0.2.81.
Supervision has a place of its own, a reflection is always one click away, and every document can be seen, saved as a PDF or printed before you share it.
Reflexive diary · Supervision
Supervision,
kept together.
Give each supervision a date, and gather what you want to bring as you work. On the day, tick off what you talked through, keep your notes and write down what you agreed.
- What you agreed joins your next steps. Anything not yet done comes back next time.
- Copy what you are bringing as plain text for an email.
- A Supervision record for Word, PDF or print.
Every workspace
A reflection,
one click away.
A slim bar runs down the right edge of every workspace. Click Add a reflection, or press ⌥⌘B on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+B on Windows, and write beside the words you are reading.
- Words you have selected come with their line and time.
- Choose For supervision to bring it to your next supervision.
- Save to diary keeps it with the interview, and Undo takes it back.
Exports
See every page
before it leaves.
Each document on the Exports page shows its pages as they will be. Save it as Word or PDF, or print it.
- Styled uses QualBuddy’s document style, with a title page.
- Plain uses Word’s own styles, so the file is easy to edit.
- With analysis highlights, the preview turns to the first page they are on.
Maps on paper
Print your map.
Cut it out.
Print any map as cards or bubbles with shared cut lines: what is not yet in a theme, each theme with its statements or codes, and the map as you arranged it.
Print on both sides and each card carries the participant’s words on its back, so you can sort the fronts on their own.
Rest the pointer on it to turn it over, as in the app.Tap it to turn it over.
Mark an interview as done
Choose Mark as done from an interview’s menu. A small seal sits on the participant’s picture. Nothing is moved or locked.
In Focus, the sides come to you
While you read in Focus, rest the pointer at the window’s left edge and the sidebar slides in. Move away and it goes again.
Also in 0.2.81
- Listening options are three short rows in each reader’s View menu: Earlier, Listen and Header.
- An interview you are analysing is marked In analysis, never Analysed.
- Personal and group themes on IPA’s maps have their own menu. Deleting one happens at once, with Undo.
- Times in exports follow one rule: the moment a quotation’s first word is heard.
- Word documents come in a calmer style, with participants’ pictures if you choose.
- Avatars are drawn sharply at every size.
- Menus and questions are never cut off by the edge of a panel.
- QualBuddy asks its own questions in place of system pop-ups, and more can be undone.
- Saved quotations show where each quotation is now, even after the transcript is edited.
Actual app screens. Invented interviews and analysis.
Earlier versions
0.2.79
29 September 2026
- A new transcript is a first draft to listen back to before analysis.
- While an interview is transcribed, the Overview offers room to write.
- Who is speaking? lets you hear a moment of each voice before you name it.
0.2.78
29 September 2026
- Account & trial reads clearly by day and at night.
- Waiting for a transcript is calm, and Stop… asks first.
- One Undo for keeping a thought, renaming speakers and identifying them.
Get 0.2.81.
Free for 14 days.
Already using QualBuddy? Close QualBuddy, then download the installer for your computer. On Mac, drag it to Applications to replace the old one. On Windows, run the installer using the same Windows account and installation location; there is no need to uninstall first. Your studies stay on your computer.