HDSDR Alternatives

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

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  1. Gqrx icon

    Gqrx

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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
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    • Almost everyone thinks Gqrx is a great HDSDR alternative.

    • Gqrx is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to HDSDR.

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

    • Gqrx is Free and Open SourceHDSDR is Free and Proprietary
  2. GNU Radio icon

    GNU Radio

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Flowgraph for narrowband FM demodulator.
     

    • GNU Radio is the most popular Windows alternative to HDSDR.

    • GNU Radio is Free and Open SourceHDSDR is Free and Proprietary
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    SDR++

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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
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  5. CubicSDR icon

    CubicSDR

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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.

    15 CubicSDR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    CubicSDR v1.2.0-alpha showing 20 MHz bandwidth of HackRF One
     
  6. SDRangel icon

    SDRangel

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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
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    SDRAngel is the most complete and signal-processing-correct SDR digital processor I have found for running the LimeUSB SDR boards.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • SDRangel is Free and Open SourceHDSDR is Free and Proprietary
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    SDR#

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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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  9. inspectrum

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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
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  10. sdrangelove icon

    sdrangelove

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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.

    14 sdrangelove alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Spectrum showing GSM signals
     
  11. SDR Touch icon

    SDR Touch

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

    • SDR Touch is Free and ProprietaryHDSDR is also Free and Proprietary

  12. Linrad

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    A program for software defined radio (SDR).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. SodiraSDR

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    Software Defined Radio (SDR) for analog and digital modulation modes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    QRadioLink

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    QRadioLink is a multimode SDR transceiver application using VOIP communication (radio over IP), built on top of GNU radio, which allows experimenting with software defined radio hardware using different digital and analog radio signals and a Qt5 UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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