Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
- MacPorts


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 SDRangel, GNU Radio, CubicSDR and SDR++.


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...

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...

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.

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




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.


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...

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.




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