GNU Radio Alternatives

GNU Radio is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to GNU Radio for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and BSD apps. The best GNU Radio alternative is Universal Radio Hacker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU Radio are CubicSDR, Simulink, SDR# and Gqrx.

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Universal Radio Hacker
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
3 Universal Radio Hacker alternatives
The Universal Radio Hacker (URH) is a software for investigating unknown wireless protocols.
- - Universal Radio Hacker is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to GNU Radio.
- - Universal Radio Hacker is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNU Radio.
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Wireless
Data analytics
CubicSDR
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
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CubicSDR is a cross-platform Software-Defined Radio application which allows you to navigate the radio spectrum and demodulate any signals you might discover.
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RTL support
Simulink
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Paid • Proprietary
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35 Simulink alternatives
Simulink® is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems.
- - Simulink is the most popular commercial alternative to GNU Radio.
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SDR#
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
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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.
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Digital Signage
Gqrx
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
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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.
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Radio Player
Dvb-t
inspectrum
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
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inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.
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Waveform
Measurement-Tools
Symbols
SDR++
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Free • Open Source
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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...
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SDR Touch
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Free • Proprietary
Android
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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...
- - SDR Touch is the most popular Android alternative to GNU Radio.
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sdrangelove
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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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.
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Baudline
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
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BSD
3 Baudline alternatives
Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail.
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Radar
MuPhyN
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
Python
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Multi Physical Nexus is a new software that allows the user to create visual diagram and print charts or export data in files. It is already well working, but it is still under developpement and does not include all the simulink features.
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HDSDR
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
12 HDSDR alternatives
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.
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