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
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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
     
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  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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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

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    Platforms

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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about SDRangel as an Alternative to HDSDR
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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.

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    • SDRangel is Free and Open SourceHDSDR is Free and Proprietary
  6. SDR# icon
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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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    inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. sdrangelove icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. 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...

    13 SDR Touch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Software Defined Radio (SDR) for analog and digital modulation modes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. 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.

    7 QRadioLink alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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