Turn your iPhone or iPad into a real world-band radio. Tune 600+ live SDR receivers around the globe — shortwave, ham bands and more. No hardware needed.
Turn your iPhone or iPad into a real radio receiver. MagicSDR connects you to more than 600 live SDR (software defined radio) servers around the world — tune in to shortwave broadcasts, ham radio and utility stations right away. No antenna, no dongle, no hardware required.
WHAT YOU CAN HEAR
- International shortwave broadcasters from every continent
- Ham radio operators on SSB and CW — contests, DXpeditions, everyday QSOs
- Aviation, marine and utility stations
- Time signals, beacons and digital modes
Pick a receiver close to the signal you want: a server in Japan, Brazil or the Alps is one tap away. Somewhere the bands are always open.
HAVE YOUR OWN SDR HARDWARE?
MagicSDR also works as a fast native client for your own receivers. The app supports the SoapyRemote protocol, which means it works with any SDR device that has a SoapySDR driver.
More supported protocols:
- rtl_tcp — stream IQ data from the popular and affordable RTL-SDR dongles
- Airspy network — connect to Airspy receivers shared over the network
- Hermes-Lite — direct connection to the open-source Hermes-Lite 2 HF transceiver
A POWERFUL RECEIVER WITH A TOUCH-FIRST UI
- Wideband panadapter and waterfall with smooth pinch-to-zoom and pan gestures
- AM, SSB (USB/LSB), CW, NFM and WFM demodulators
- Adjustable filter bandwidth and noise-threshold squelch
- Frequency bookmarks to collect and organize stations
- Band plan overlay, so you always know where you are on the dial
- Audio over UDP — feed external decoders such as FT8/WSJT-X or CW
- Built-in EiBi shortwave schedule database — instantly see which broadcast station is on the air, in what language and when
MADE FOR
Ham radio operators, shortwave listeners (SWL), DXers, spectrum analysis — and anyone curious about what is on the air right now.
Feedback and feature requests are always welcome — MagicSDR is in active development.
I have been running a public KiwiSDR receiver for years and always wanted an IOS client for it. Although very limited (see below) this app is an answer to that.The app will connect to KiwiSDR receivers and open a raw IQ stream. It will then proceed to demodulate the received stream within the app itself (AM,FM,SSB,CW are available).This is drastically different from how a KiwiSDR receiver normally works, the biggest difference being that you will only be able to see about 10KHz of spectrum bandwidth instead of 30MHz.The user interface is very, very basic and at times hard to use. Overall, however, this is the only IOS client I know of that works with my KiwiSDR and therefore I will keep using it.Note: I also tried the app with an RTL-SDR dongle but I was unable to do it successfully due to an error about Soapy that shoes in the logs.
Works great with rtl_tcp
TangySquid
MagicSDR is working perfecting with my rtl_tcp service that is working with an RTL-SDR V4 Blog dongle. I am running rtl_tcp in a podman container on a fedora 43 server and it’s working perfectly with MagicSDR. I really like that I can see the entire 2m HAM band in the spectrum chart and I like that I can bookmark frequencies of my favorite repeaters and double tap on the spectrum to tune into a particular frequency. With this app I actually found a new repeater that I was unaware of doing a morning ragchew. Pretty impressive!
Does not run in background
simage21
App is working ok on rtl_tcp and spyserver network but is pretty much useless since it does not run in background. If you switch between the apps or do anything else on your phone the app disconnects from server.And no, it is not IOS limit since other SDR apps continue to stream in background just fine.So very limited usability.
Working Great Again!
JAC1of6
The developer is very responsive and I appreciate that. Thank you. My kiwi SDR’s are up and running again…:) This app is the best out there for listening to the “Ham Radio Nets” ease of use with the book marks to listen to all your favorite broadcasts. I appreciate all you hard work and highly recommend this app for all your SDR needs.John
- Added enumerator map
- Added support SoapyRemote protocol
Version 26.08
The developer, Vladyslav Haliuk, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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