Liminon

Use case

Interview analysis for UX researchers whose recordings are confidential

Customer interviews often come with an NDA or a consent line that says recordings stay internal. Here is how Liminon handles that, and what it leaves to you.

Liminon Team · Published 2026-10-13 · Updated 2026-10-13 · 4 min read

Who this is for

UX researchers, product researchers and consultants who run customer or stakeholder interviews and then have to turn hours of audio into themes a team will act on. The recordings are often covered by an NDA, a client contract or a consent form that says they stay within the team.

The usual workflow, and its weak point

Many teams send recordings to an online transcription service, then copy quotes into a whiteboard or a spreadsheet to find themes. The weak point is the first step: a third party now holds the recordings, and the synthesis lives in a tool that has no record of how a theme was reached.

How Liminon handles it

  • Nothing is uploaded. Transcription and speaker separation run on your Mac. There is no account, and the app has no usage analytics or telemetry. The network requests it makes are the one-time model download on your first transcription and the update check you start yourself.
  • Code and compare across participants. Code whole segments or phrases, nest the codes into a tree, and use Case Comparison to see, for a finding or a research question, what each interview contributed.
  • Take it to the team. Export a quotation table as a Word document, matrices (code by recording, code by speaker) as an Excel workbook, and a methodology report. A one-click research package bundles it all.
  • Optional local AI. Code suggestions and theme discovery run on a small local model through Ollama. Suggestions stay pending until you accept them, and the audit trail records what you accepted and rejected.

What it leaves to you

  • There is no shared workspace or live collaboration. The project is a .qproj folder, so to share it you hand over the folder or the exports.
  • Personal licenses are single-user. Lab or multi-seat licenses are handled by email at [email protected].
  • It runs only on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later, and the interface and the AI suggestions work best in English.
  • Where the files live, and whether the disk is encrypted, is your responsibility. Local processing keeps recordings off other people's servers; it does not make a laptop safe by itself.

Price

Free during the beta, then a one-time license ($129 early-bird, $179 standard, with updates through v1.x). See pricing. If the choice is between tools, our sourced comparison with NVivo, MAXQDA and ATLAS.ti lists what we could verify.

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