PulseView
PulseView is a free, open-source graphical user interface for the libsigrok signal analysis toolkit. It is used by electronics engineers, embedded developers, and hobbyists to capture and visualize digital signals from logic analyzers and other measurement hardware. PulseView supports a wide range of test equipment through libsigrok's hardware abstraction layer, displays waveforms in real-time, and provides protocol decoding and analysis features. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS and Android, making it a common tool in educational labs and professional hardware debugging workflows.
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1 suggestionAs of May 2026, PulseView has no native Apple Silicon build available through official distribution channels. The sigrok project's official macOS nightly builds remain x86_64 only, and community reports from late 2023 confirmed the app crashes on M-series Macs unless run through Rosetta 2 with additional dependency workarounds. However, there is recent evidence (2025) from MIT documentation suggesting that the stable 0.4.2 release may now work on Apple Silicon Macs without extensive setup, though this has not been formally announced by the sigrok project. Before macOS 28 removes Rosetta 2 in September 2028 — less than 2.5 years away — the sigrok maintainers need to release a native arm64 build. Contact the project directly (sigrok.org/support) to ask about Apple Silicon support and native build timelines. In the meantime, you can verify whether the current stable release runs on your M-series Mac by downloading the latest DMG from sigrok.org and attempting to launch it (you may need to grant it privacy permissions via System Settings → Privacy & Security). If PulseView remains Intel-only at the September 2028 deadline, it will stop launching entirely.
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