SDR# Alternatives

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

    Platforms

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

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

    • Gqrx is Free and Open SourceSDR# is Free and Proprietary
  2. 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
     
    • GNU Radio is the most popular Windows alternative to SDR#.

    • GNU Radio is Free and Open SourceSDR# is Free and Proprietary
  3. CubicSDR icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. SigDigger icon
     1 like

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Debian
     
  5. 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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

    12 SDRangel alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. sdrangelove icon
     1 like

    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
     
  8. 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 SDR#.

    • SDR Touch is Free and ProprietarySDR# is also Free and Proprietary
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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
     
  10.  Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11.  Like

    A program for software defined radio (SDR).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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