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  1. balenaEtcher icon
     654 likes

    Ideal for creating bootable USBs and SD cards, ensuring safe, cross-platform use. Open-source, lightweight, and portable with a user-friendly interface.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    55 alternatives
    3.5
    Good71 reviews
  2. UNetbootin icon
     759 likes

    Cross-platform utility to create bootable USB drives or Live USBs, with a built-in downloader for Linux ISO images and rescue disks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    Welcome screen
    Distributions list
    Using ISO file
    57 alternatives
    3.5
    Good19 reviews
  3. macUSB icon
     7 likes

    The easiest way to create legacy macOS bootable drives on modern Macs. Revive old Intel Macs using your Apple Silicon machine — no terminal knowledge required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    51 alternatives
  4. ApplePi-Baker v2 icon
     146 likes

    Restore/Backup Utility, initially intended for Raspberry Pi users, but very suitable for all SD cards and external disks. More compression formats, no more sudo passwords, enable SSH, Auto Eject, restore to multiple disks, size check, shrink, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Aqua Theme and Dark Theme support
    Dark Theme or Aqua Theme can be forced
    Add one disk for Backup or Restore
    +5
    Add multiple disks for simultaneous restore
    17 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent21 reviews
  5. A tool to create a bootable live USB drive with an edition of Fedora. Not only can Fedora Media Writer write an image to your flash drive, it can also download it for you. It offers official editions (Server, Workstation), Fedora spins (KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce Desktop, Cinnamon...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    48 alternatives
  6. DiskMaker X icon
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    DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with many versions of OS X/macOS to build a bootable drive from OS X/macOS installer program (the one you download from the App Store).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    12 alternatives
  7. Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    46 alternatives
  8. Mac Linux USB Loader is an application that allows you to create bootable USB drives containing a Linux distribution that can boot natively on Apple's Macintosh computers using their EFI system, regardless of whether or not the selected distribution has UEFI support.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    25 alternatives
  9. WizISO is the only reliable burning image tool with no demerits at all. Supports Windows and Mac OS. There 2 ways you can create a bootable disk from an ISO file: USB and DVD/CD and provides 4 types of file format: FAT, FAT 32, exFAT, NTFS, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    5 alternatives
  10. Caligula icon
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    A user-friendly, lightweight TUI wrapper for the dd command written in Rust that performs easy disk imaging and ISO burning with only a single command with graphs and rich confirmation dialogs.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
    Screenshot of the Caligula TUI verifying a disk
    48 alternatives