What's new (NVivo 15 Mac)

NVivo updates (2025–June 2026) introduced improvements to concurrent licensing, generative AI features for summarization, coding suggestions, and sentiment analysis, along with improved collaboration and advanced analytics tools. The updates also enhanced usability, performance, integrations, and stability through interface improvements, new visualizations, and numerous bug fixes.

Sep 15, 2026
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NVivo is under continual improvement, adding new features and improving the user experience.

If you want to make a feature request or report a bug, go here.

September 2026 (NVivo 15.6.0)

Feature	Description
AI Assistant	The new AI Assistant: Paper Search option lets you describe a research topic to find relevant academic papers, preview them, and import them directly into your project as files.
User Interface Improvements	You can now right-click a tab to close it, close all other tabs, or close all tabs. You can also middle-click a tab to close it.
General	Resolved an issue where the project window closed after copying a code description from the code Get Info dialog. Fixed a bug where child code counts displayed incorrectly and coded files were missing when opening a code from the Codebook. Resolved an issue where the application became unresponsive when editing classification sheet attributes. Fixed silent activation failing after command line deployment, which resulted in an admin credential prompt on first launch and NVivo opening unlicensed. Resolved a crash on launch when the Documents folder is synced to a cloud service such as OneDrive. Fixed a sync error that prevented projects from being uploaded due to a data inconsistency. Resolved a "No Permission" error when opening a cloud project immediately after launching NVivo.

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AI Assistant

The new AI Assistant: Paper Search option lets you describe a research topic to find relevant academic papers, preview them, and import them directly into your project as files.

User Interface Improvements

You can now right-click a tab to close it, close all other tabs, or close all tabs. You can also middle-click a tab to close it.

General

Resolved an issue where the project window closed after copying a code description from the code Get Info dialog.
Fixed a bug where child code counts displayed incorrectly and coded files were missing when opening a code from the Codebook.
Resolved an issue where the application became unresponsive when editing classification sheet attributes.
Fixed silent activation failing after command line deployment, which resulted in an admin credential prompt on first launch and NVivo opening unlicensed.
Resolved a crash on launch when the Documents folder is synced to a cloud service such as OneDrive.
Fixed a sync error that prevented projects from being uploaded due to a data inconsistency.
Resolved a "No Permission" error when opening a cloud project immediately after launching NVivo.

June 2026 (NVivo 15.5.1)

Feature	Description
General	Improved activation error messages for hosted-floating licenses now provide clearer and consistent messaging across Mac and Windows. Resolved an issue with hosted-floating license not reactivating after initial command-line activation. Fixed an issue where hosted-floating license seats were not released when closing the application. The "About" dialog no longer displays the license key for hosted-floating licenses.

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General

Improved activation error messages for hosted-floating licenses now provide clearer and consistent messaging across Mac and Windows.
Resolved an issue with hosted-floating license not reactivating after initial command-line activation.
Fixed an issue where hosted-floating license seats were not released when closing the application.
The "About" dialog no longer displays the license key for hosted-floating licenses.

May 2026 (NVivo 15.5.0)

Feature	Description
Collaboration Cloud	Improved real-time collaboration between Mac and Windows users. Additionally, Mac users can now delete Cloud projects.
General	Resolved crashing and syncing issues with Collaboration Cloud. Fixed an error that occurred while importing a project.

March 2026 (NVivo 15.4.0)

Feature	Description
Autocoding	Starting with NVivo 15.4.0, Mac users can now use the new Analyze Sentiment feature to analyze and automatically code content to a predefined set of sentiment codes ranging from very positive to very negative. See Automatically detect and code sentiment (NVivo 15 Mac).
Import Dataset Assistant	The Import Dataset Assistant now supports Autocode Sentiment, allowing users to leverage AI to automatically detect and code sentiment in open-ended survey responses. See Datasets (NVivo 15 Mac).

January 2026 (NVivo 15.3.2)

Feature	Description
Mixed Methods Research	Crosstab query now supports principal components analysis (PCA) biplot visualization.
XLSTAT Export	A new option allows you to export coding frequencies across cases or different case types within your project. The exported Excel file can be used in applications like Excel or XLSTAT for statistical analysis.
Coding stripes	A new mode is added to coding stripes so that you can view coding stripes for all codes and cases that code the content which is currently in view.
General	Fixed a crash that occurred when exporting crosstab query results to CSV. Resolved an issue with displaying weighted values in Coding Comparison query. Addressed issue with inserting AI summaries into Framework Matrices. Resolved issues with regenerating AI summaries for the same cell. Resolved crash when opening converted Mac projects. Resolved unnecessary display of license agreement during unattended activation.

November 2025 (NVivo 15.3.1)

Feature	Description
Framework Matrix	Resolved a crashing issue caused when updating cases, codes, or classifications in an existing Framework matrix.
General	Fixes included for Framework Matrix: The updated summary texts were not correctly displayed. Users can now successfully dismiss the autosave progress pop-up. Fixed issues with AI summaries.

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Framework Matrix

Resolved a crashing issue caused when updating cases, codes, or classifications in an existing Framework matrix.

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Fixes included for Framework Matrix:

The updated summary texts were not correctly displayed.

Users can now successfully dismiss the autosave progress pop-up.
Fixed issues with AI summaries.

October 2025 (NVivo 15.3.0)

Feature	Description
Framework Matrix	Framework Matrix is now supported in Mac. See Framework matrices (NVivo 15 Mac).
AI Assistant	In the Framework Matrix, you can now generate summaries of coded content automatically with the help of the AI Assistant. AI Assistant: Summarize (NVivo 15 Mac).
Disable AI Features	You can now disable AI Assistant features via User Defaults. See Disable AI Features.
Mixed Methods Research	Crosstab query now displays descriptive statistics such as mean, median, and quartiles in the table as well as a new box plot visualization. See Mixed Methods Research.
Audio and Video	Implemented redesigned waveform and intuitive playback controls for audio/video documents.
XLSX file export	You can export list view items to an .xlsx file format. Case classification sheet export now supports .xlsx file format. You can now export Crosstab, Text query, Matrix coding query to .xlsx file format.

July 2025 (NVivo 15.2.1)

Feature	Description
User Interface Improvements	Improved text alignment in Deactivation dialog.
NVivo settings	You can now set NVivo to automatically check for software updates every day.
Import files	Fixed an issue that could prevent import of video files.
Coding	Fixed PDF coding issues and errors—wrong text coded in In Vivo coding, wrong text in coding reference, “CodeOnExistingNodes error 2”, and “CodeOnNewNode error 12”.

June 2025 (NVivo 15.2.0)

Feature	Description
AI Assistant: Summarize	AI Assistant: Summarize option now supports summarization of cases.
Usability and User Interface Improvements	Enhanced the welcome screen by making the options more accessible and adding a new button to open projects from disk. Additionally, improved the application behavior so that the welcome screen is displayed when all NVivo projects are closed and when the NVivo icon is clicked from the dock. Updated the top ribbon so that options like AI Assistant is made more visible in the default window size. Minor user interface localization improvements.
General	Fixes included in this release: Fixed collaboration cloud project upload and upload canceling issues. Resolved an issue where the minimized Navigation View is automatically expanded when coding. The display of the “Coded to …” notification shown in the Navigation View. Word Cloud layout button is now available. Word Tree diagram is now correctly displayed. Resolved text alignment issue in 'Delete Items' dialog.

Feature

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AI Assistant: Summarize

AI Assistant: Summarize option now supports summarization of cases.

Usability and User Interface Improvements

Enhanced the welcome screen by making the options more accessible and adding a new button to open projects from disk. Additionally, improved the application behavior so that the welcome screen is displayed when all NVivo projects are closed and when the NVivo icon is clicked from the dock.
Updated the top ribbon so that options like AI Assistant is made more visible in the default window size.
Minor user interface localization improvements.

General

Fixes included in this release:

Fixed collaboration cloud project upload and upload canceling issues.
Resolved an issue where the minimized Navigation View is automatically expanded when coding.
The display of the “Coded to …” notification shown in the Navigation View.
Word Cloud layout button is now available.
Word Tree diagram is now correctly displayed.
Resolved text alignment issue in 'Delete Items' dialog.

April 2025 (NVivo 15.1.3)

Feature	Description
AI Assistant	Improvements to AI functionality as part of ongoing maintenance support. Please update to this version to ensure seamless operation of AI Assistant.

April 2025 (NVivo 15.1.2)

Feature	Description
Licensing	Improved workflows for on-premise organization license provisioning and activation.
Collaboration Cloud with NVivo 15	Manage Team dialog has been improved so that Project owners can add collaborators by entering their email address.

January 2025 (NVivo 15.1.0)

Feature	Description
License management	Improved workflows for license provisioning and activation.
AI Assistant (NVivo 15 Mac)	Resolved crashing issues with AI summary language selection. Users can now navigate through the entries in the Summarize and Suggest Child code dialog using the UP and DOWN ARROW keys on the keyboard.
AI Assistant: Summarize (NVivo 15 Mac)	AI Assistant: Summarize option, previously called AI Assistant: Summarize Document(s), now supports summarization of codes.
Installation	Resolved command line installation issues when using NVivo 14 Subscription license key to install NVivo 15.
Collaboration Cloud with NVivo 15 Mac	Resolved issues with cloning projects, delete access for collaborators, and code handling.
Datasets (NVivo 15 Mac)	Resolved dataset import issues.

October 2024 (NVivo 15.0.1)

Feature	Description
AI Assistant: Summarize Text (NVivo 15 Mac)	Added support to allow users to edit the AI suggested summaries before saving them as Annotations.
AI Assistant: Suggest Child Codes (NVivo 15 Mac)	Added support for Child code suggestions for codes in datasets. The "Created by" column in the list view displays NVivo AI user to indicate the AI generated child codes. Resolved issues with context menu.
AI Assistant: Summarize (NVivo 15 Mac)	Added support to allow users to edit the AI suggested summaries before saving them as memos. Added support to handle long documents. Improvements to summary generation and document selection processes. Resolved context menu issues for files selected from the File classification option.
Collaboration Cloud with NVivo 15 Mac	Improvements to Collaboration Cloud Windows and Mac data synchronization. Fixed issues with opening the cloud project on Mac that was uploaded from a Windows machine.
General	Aside from user interface localization improvements, the following issues were fixed: Issues with displaying Highlights (coded content) in files. Crashing issues when opening a specific dataset file from the sample project. Issues with editing memos and appending new memos to the existing memos. Resolved preview screen issue in Import Dataset Assistant.

NVivo 15.0.0

Feature	Description
AI Assistant	AI Assistant is a generative artificial intelligent tool that is embedded within NVivo to enhance your data analysis. Using AI assistant, you can leverage coding suggestions and summarize texts or documents.

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