Qualitative software is expensive. For several years, I could not afford it because my University did not give me a research budget. During that time, TAMS analyzer was my lifesaver. TAMS is available for MacOS and Linux but not for PC. RQDA used to be a great solution for PC but it was discontinued.
My favorite solution for qualitative data analysis for Windows at the moment is Taguette. Taguette only allows you to code and does not provide much if you need quasi-positivist analysis tools, such a cross frequency counts. However, I find it that for my needs it is quite enough and it is easy to do more sophisticated analysis with the many export options for Taguette. I do wish that RQDA was still around. That was the best for both MacOS and Windows.
Qcoder is an alternative for Windows, but it does not have a full release version yet.