SDR Touch Alternatives

SDR Touch is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to SDR Touch for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. The best SDR Touch alternative is GNU Radio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SDR Touch are CubicSDR, SDR++, inspectrum and Gqrx.

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SDR Touch alternatives page was last updated Jun 18, 2022
  1. 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
    Flowgraph for narrowband FM demodulator.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    GNU Radio iconSDR Touch Icon

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    • GNU Radio is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to SDR Touch.

    • GNU Radio is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SDR Touch.

    • GNU Radio is Free and Open SourceSDR Touch is Free and Proprietary
  2. 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.

    15 CubicSDR alternatives
    CubicSDR v1.2.0-alpha showing 20 MHz bandwidth of HackRF One

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    CubicSDR Features

    1.  RTL support
    CubicSDR iconSDR Touch Icon

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

    • CubicSDR is Free and Open SourceSDR Touch is Free and Proprietary
  3. 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
    SDR++ screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    SDR++ iconSDR Touch Icon

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

    14 inspectrum alternatives
    inspectrum screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    inspectrum Features

    1.  Waveform
    2.  Measurement-Tools
    3.  Symbols
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  5. 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
    Gqrx screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Gqrx Features

    1.  Radio Player
    2.  Dvb-t
    Gqrx iconSDR Touch Icon

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  6. SDR# icon
     8 likes

    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
    SDR# screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    SDR# Features

    1.  Digital Signage
    SDR# iconSDR Touch Icon

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  7. SDRangel icon
     3 likes

    SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay RSP1 and FunCube

    12 SDRangel alternatives
    SDRangel screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    SDRangel iconSDR Touch Icon

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  8. 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.

    14 sdrangelove alternatives
    Spectrum showing GSM signals

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    sdrangelove iconSDR Touch Icon

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

    11 SodiraSDR alternatives
    SodiraSDR screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    A program for software defined radio (SDR).

    11 Linrad alternatives
    Linrad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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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
    Receiving the whole 15m band with HDSDR and Perseus under Windows8 64bit.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. OpenWebRX icon
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    Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface.

    8 OpenWebRX alternatives
    OpenWebRX screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    end of development notice (https://blog.sdr.hu/) and Repo archived (https://github.com/ha7ilm/openwebrx)

    OpenWebRX iconSDR Touch Icon

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