Introducing Spektra
We’re releasing Spektra, a native macOS spectrum analyzer that turns an inexpensive RTL-SDR USB dongle into a full-featured radio exploration tool. See, identify, and listen to signals from 24 MHz to 1.7 GHz. The gap it fills SDR software on the Mac has historically meant running GNURadio in a Linux VM, or using CubicSDR (which hasn’t been updated in years). Spektra is a native Swift/SwiftUI app that bridges directly to librtlsdr — no VMs, no Qt, no X11. Plug in a dongle and you’re looking at the spectrum. ...