A Thaum Labs project, run by Tobias Franklin (M7TJF)
HamCrate is a free, non-commercial hub where amateur radio operators find, download and keep up with open-source ham radio software. Think of it as a shelf in the shack where the good stuff lives: every app has its platforms, checksums, what radio and interface you need, and the latest release notes in one place.
You never need an account or a callsign to download. Sign in (with an email link or GitHub) only to upvote apps or publish your own.
- Open source only. Every app needs an OSI- or FSF-approved licence and public source code. We check the licence before a listing goes live.
- No apps that encrypt on-air traffic. Amateur radio rules in most countries forbid obscuring the meaning of transmissions. Signing and authentication are fine; secret messages are not.
- No ads, no tracking. No analytics scripts, no third-party cookies, no affiliate links. Download counts use a salted, per-day hash of your IP address — never the address itself — and those hashes are deleted after two days.
- Every file is scanned. Uploads sit in quarantine until ClamAV and VirusTotal give them the all-clear. A failed scan always holds the version.
- Be straight with users. Say whether your app transmits, whether it needs the internet, and what hardware it needs.
Anyone can publish once their email address is confirmed. Upload files (up to 100 MB each, 1024 MB per app) or link your GitHub Releases and we'll import new versions automatically. We keep the latest 3 stable releases and the latest release candidate.
New listings and listing changes are reviewed by hand. Once your app is approved, new versions publish automatically as soon as their scan is clean.
Some apps are listed by HamCrate from their public releases, with full credit to the original project. If one of them is yours, use the claim link on its page.