MagicSDR User Reviews

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Working Great Again!

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
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Fixed getting kiwi SDR? No longer recommended this app…

Why did you remove the kiwi SDR receivers???
You can turn it off by deselecting kiwi SDR in the “Filter” check box. You just removed the 600+ receivers that you have listed on your feature page. The developer removed the best part of the app. I can no longer recommend this to anyone unless you want to set up your own SDR. “Hardware is now required”. Increasing it complexity. It’s really too bad, I really liked this app, and used to a lot.
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SDR dongles are NOT supported on iOS

But for some reason it’s not stated on the apps page. You have to set up your dongle through a pc and connect with this app to the server you set up….you can do this for free without this app btw. Don’t let this “developer” scam you

Won’t connect to Kiwi servers

I don’t know if this is temporary, but I just paid 13 bucks for a dead app. I don’t have a dongle. I was hoping to connect to public SDR connections…

Works great with rtl_tcp

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!
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MagicSDR

Don’t work iPhone 7 plus.

Started working as described.

Not sure why it didn’t work in the beginning… Thought it was a “rip off…. Changing my review to 5 stars. Works in the background. Use it every day for keeping up with the Nets. The book marks are great and fast for on the go reception and testing of your antennas. Highly recommend. Beats the cost of buying your own Shortwave radio. Plus the cost of an antenna. No other equipment needed. Exactly what I was looking for.
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Highly Recommended

This app is essential for listening to SDR’s with the ability to turn the screen off. It’s easy to use works great.

KiwiSDR links stop showing recently

I’d like the links back, thank you.

How do you get access to the 600 servers???

The developer mentioned no special equipment needed? You need a server for this to work. All you get is a wav file for $12.00 bucks. Rip off…

Ottima.. ma migliorabile

Come da titolo, finalmente posso utilizzare KiwiSdr da iPhone senza tenere attivo il browser. Non metto cinque stelle per incentivare a dei miglioramenti a livello di interfaccia grafica, dei comandi e settaggi vari, attualmente un po’ macchinosi e non intuitivi.
Sarebbe molto gradita la gestione dei server KiwiSdr preferiti.

Aggiornamento: l’app non viene aggiornata da quasi un anno!
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Szuper prg

Nagyon jó program. Régen kerestem már ilyet. Köszönjük

No more updated

Bought app, without updates for months, several bugs (crash or frequency drift) and features still missing (like add manually a kiwi).
When you buy an app, you have to verify if it’s supported properly.

Nessuna spiegazione

Non si capisce perché non vede il sample rate dello Spyserver riproducendo la voce e di Paperino. Ma inserire un manuale su sprecava tempo? France potenziale sprecato.

Works (kind of) with KiwiSDR

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.
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False description. Need refund

It said that it didn’t need any additions , like hardware. It DOES need hardware to use.
I want refund

No arm decode?

It seems no wfm demodulator.

Great app !

I have to say this is a great app. I had a small issue and the owner got back to me within an hour by email. It’s quite expensive, but it’s worth it for me. The only few things I’d say is that it’s quite difficult to find an online server, most of them are down. It would be nice to be able to save a server as a favourite for future use. I have to write them down to remember them, but it would be a great idea to be able to put servers into a favourite list. It would also be great to only get a list of servers which are actually online. Also it would be nice to be able to see more of the waterfall display, not just 5khz increments. It’s often a bit unresponsive trying to scroll the screen through the frequencies, it’s not smooth. But all that said, it’s a fantastic app. And it gets updated very often, which is good.
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Does not run in background

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.
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Gut gemeint, aber funktioniert nicht

Bedienung und Design wären gut. Auch die Stationen lassen sich abrufen und Steuer. Aber das Audio wird nur über das Telefon wiedergegeben und nicht über die AirPods. Auch wenn man Signale in cw hören will, so hört man sie über SSB, aber sobald man auf cw umstellt ist das Signal nicht mehr zu hören. Auch das suchen links und rechts der qrg hat keinen Erfolg gebracht.
Schade. Für 16€ hätte ich mehr erwartet.
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