CubicSDR Alternatives

CubicSDR is described as 'Cross-platform Software-Defined Radio application which allows you to navigate the radio spectrum and demodulate any signals you might discover' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to CubicSDR for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best CubicSDR alternative is Gqrx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CubicSDR are SigDigger, GNU Radio, SDR++ and SDR#.

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  1. Gqrx icon
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    Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver powered by the GNU Radio SDR framework and the Qt graphical toolkit. It supports many of the SDR hardware available, including Funcube Dongles, rtl-sdr, HackRF and USRP devices.

    14 Gqrx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
     
    • Gqrx is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to CubicSDR.

    • Gqrx is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to CubicSDR.

    • Gqrx is Free and Open SourceCubicSDR is also Free and Open Source
  2. SigDigger icon
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    SigDigger is a Qt5 digital signal analyzer written in C/C++ that runs in GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows. SigDigger uses its own DSP library (sigutils) and a realtime signal analysis library (Suscan) to distribute load, and supports most SDR devices in the market thanks to SoapySDR.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Debian
     
    • SigDigger is the most popular Windows alternative to CubicSDR.

    • SigDigger is Free and Open SourceCubicSDR is also Free and Open Source
  3. GNU Radio icon
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    GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like...

    17 GNU Radio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. SDR++ icon
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    SDR++ is an open source, cross platform, C++ based GUI general receiver program for various SDRs including the RTL-SDR. Since it's alpha release in mid 2020, it has undergone huge amount of development, and is quickly becoming the main program of choice for many users due to...

    15 SDR++ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. SDR# icon
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    SDR# (SDRSharp) is a popular, simple, fast and extensible Software Defined Radio program written from scratch in C# to experiment new Digital Signal Processing techniques and push the Microsoft .NET Framework to its limits.

    14 SDR# alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. SDRangel icon
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    SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay RSP1 and FunCube

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. sdrangelove icon
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    A graphical application for showing the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) as graph and waterfall diagram of the radio spectrum retrieved by Software Defined Radio (SDR) devices supported by GrOsmoSDR. Plugins enable demodulating a selected signal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. SDR Touch icon
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    Turn any mobile phone or tablet into an affordable and portable software defined radio scanner with spectrum analyser. Listen and record live on air FM stereo radio stations with RDS, weather reports, emergency stations, taxi traffic, airplane communications, audio of analogue...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • SDR Touch is the most popular Android alternative to CubicSDR.

    • SDR Touch is Free and ProprietaryCubicSDR is Free and Open Source
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    HDSDR is a freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) program for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10. Typical applications are Radio listening, Ham Radio, SWL, Radio Astronomy, NDB-hunting and Spectrum analysis.

    12 HDSDR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. MagicSDR icon
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    MagicSDR makes it possible to interactively explore RF spectrum using panadapter and waterfall visualization, demodulate and play AM, SSB, CW, NFM, WFM signals, collect frequencies. Built on the principle of plug-in architecture, MagicSDR - powerful and flexible next-generation...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
    • MagicSDR is the most popular iPhone alternative to CubicSDR.

    • MagicSDR is Freemium and ProprietaryCubicSDR is Free and Open Source
    • MagicSDR is Privacy focused and LightweightCubicSDR is not according to our users
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    Software Defined Radio (SDR) for analog and digital modulation modes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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