--- title: WinCross Desktop Reviews meta_title: 'WinCross Desktop Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 28 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how WinCross Desktop works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 28 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # WinCross Desktop Reviews **Vendor:** The Analytical Group **Category:** [Other Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About WinCross Desktop WinCross, the industry's leading crosstabulation software, provides the ability to highlight trends in data and determine statistical significance. ## WinCross Desktop Reviews ### 1. Rigorous Statistical Analysis That Makes Novices Feel Like an Expert **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katie C. | Founder, Market Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2026 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** I am by no means a Stat expert, but they make me feel like an expert! The statistical analysis is rigorous and perfect for my quantitative studies. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** There is a learning curve. I would recommend signing up for training to really understand how to use the features and functionality. Once you spend a few hours you are ready to hit the ground running with basic analysis. I still do basic analysis, but it has been perfect for my business needs. I am aware that I am still just scratching the surface of the functionality, but it is working for now. When I have more time, I will invest more in training. The training was excellent! **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The analysis tools within the survey platforms weren't able to handle the custom datacuts I needed and the flexible statistical analysis. WinCross give me the flexibility to create custom banners and custom tables and applies rigorous statistical testing for my analysis. ### 2. Wincross - easy to use yet powerful **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Importing an SPSS file automatically sets up every table. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Negative weights for Rim Weighting? While the user is able to specify a minimum weight that is not negative, it should never be allowed in the first place. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast and clean tabs. ### 3. Great software for Data Analysis of Surveys **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to create data tables and banner, fairly intuitive as well. I like that I can save and share job files among coworkers easily. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Sometimes has bugs that can be frustrating, especially in the banners section. Overwhelming amount of settings to be able to manipulate, this may be a bonus for some though. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** It's really solid, does what you need it to, hard to complain about it when it works, but sometimes you get bugs that are fixed by restarting the software. I would say this is kind of rare though. I find that with larger datasets it can take a while to perform some smaller operations, but this may also be a limit of my PC hardware. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** nice to be able to share jobfile, copy into a text editor. we use wincross to help with wave over wave projects when our online software is limited in custom operations. Many common tasks of Market Research Survey data analysis are automated, NET's are easy to create, same with higher level mathematical operations. ### 4. Senior Data Analysts in Market research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun G. | Senior Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Banner creation is so user friendly and easy . **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Charts creation in WinCross could be better **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** If you want automation then wincross desktop is ghe tool **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly tabulation is the major thing i am working on and less time is required for banner creation and significance testing is so easy to apply ### 5. Awesome product for Tabulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atif M. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2021 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** I enjoyed using ease of tabulation with programming as well as with gui. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** I have been using it since last 3 years, i still don’t find much of any issue. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Wincross is for both programmer as well as who can not code. As what ever you could do with coding, you have almost same accessibility with gui. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best thing which i like about wincross is, reusability of the code. ### 6. Wincross Desktop is a user friendly and work any kind of analytics jobs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh A. | Sr. Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** This tool is basically for tabulation and analytical skills **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Working on this tool is much lengthy and manually in script **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Yes I recommend to everybody who works on tabulation purposes. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wincross desktop mainly works on tabulation and sig-testing and weighting also. Mainly it is used for Tabulation works ### 7. Great Tabulation and Analysis software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** We can do many analysis using this software. Tabulation programming is very easy. Weighting is very easy to do and easy to understand. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Number of banner points could be more. If we can use "USE" statement in the banner then it would be wonderful. if we could add some more analysis to this. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** If you are looking for great tabulation software and software related for analysis then it would be a great choice **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tabulation, Stats and ### 8. WinCross not only for crosstabulations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebi J. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** ExpressTabs are quite handy for rapid data analysis. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Inability to handle qualitative data or text analytics. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** If you are a non-programmer and need some rapid data analysis go with Wincross. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** New WinCross can generate tables that contain up to 6000 rows per table and 255 banner columns per banner. So, it can add more value while handling multidimensional data. ### 9. Wincross Analytical tool is very good for programming in Market Research Industry. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit D. | Statistical Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to make banner and do the Column comparison significance testing across all columns. **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** There is no specific point to dislike it. However, for advance analysis there is some limitations in win-cross tools. For example advance statistical techniques Regression analysis, Time series analysis, Random boost techniques. **Recommendations to others considering WinCross Desktop:** Good to use Win-cross tool to handle market research survey data. **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Wincross -tool, earlier I was using Uncle Tabulation tool in my project. However, if number of tables in study is more then programming is lengthy and it takes longer time. But, in win-cross tools, we have "Use" function which is very useful and we can reduce our programming part. ### 10. Awesome tool for cross tabulation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeesh R. | Data analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2020 **What do you like best about WinCross Desktop?** Very easy to create cross tables with multiple filters..hyperlinks really help to read the user easily **What do you dislike about WinCross Desktop?** Case sensitive and only capital letters allowed **What problems is WinCross Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to do the primary research...gives clear picture of the data ## WinCross Desktop Discussions - [What is WinCross Desktop used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-wincross-desktop-used-for) - [Don't believe anything you read on G2. 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