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Gqrx

A software-defined radio receiver for RTL-SDR, HackRF, Airspy and similar hardware, built on GNU Radio and Qt.

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GPL-3.0 · Free download · Downloads from github.com

License
GPL-3.0
Open source
Category
Utilities
Source
GitHub
gqrx-sdr
Verified
2026

About Gqrx

Gqrx turns a USB radio dongle into a scanning receiver on your Mac. It works with hardware supported by gr-osmosdr and SoapySDR, including RTL-SDR sticks, Airspy, HackRF, BladeRF, FunCube Dongle and USRP devices, and shows the band as a live spectrum and waterfall that you click to tune.

It demodulates AM, FM and SSB signals to audio, can record audio or raw I/Q data, and can also run as a plain FFT instrument. A remote-control interface over network sockets lets other programs tune it and read signal levels.

You need a supported SDR receiver to use it. The project publishes separate disk images for Apple silicon and Intel Macs on its GitHub releases page.

Information

Source code
gqrx-sdr/gqrx
License
GPL-3.0
Website
gqrx.dk
Download
github.com
Homebrew
gqrx
Category
Utilities
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