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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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macUSB Alternatives
macUSB is described as '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' and is a bootable usb creator in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 50 alternatives to macUSB for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best macUSB alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like macUSB are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT.
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22 Raspberry Pi Imager alternativesUse Raspberry Pi Imager for an easy way to install Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to an SD card ready to use with your Raspberry Pi.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi OS
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21 USBImager alternativesUSBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
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49 WinSetupFromUSB alternativesWinSetupFromUSB is a Windows program, which prepares multiboot USB flash or fixed disk to install any Windows versions since 2000/XP, boot various Linux and *BSD flavors, as well as many Windows, Linux, DOS based and other utilities. Since version 1.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
40 SARDU alternativesSARDU (short for Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) creates a multiboot all-in-one USB drive, CD or DVD for free (personal and non commercial use). Hard disks, external hard disks and all removable media are supported.
17 ApplePi-Baker v2 alternativesRestore/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.
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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...
52 WinDiskWriter alternativesA macOS app that creates bootable USB drives for Windows. Patches Windows 11 to bypass TPM and Secure Boot requirements.
9 ImageUSB alternativesImageUSB is a free tool for writing an image to multiple USB Flash Drives (or reading image from an UFD).
ImageUSB is designed for use with OSForensics.
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Linux Mint's USB Image Writer (mintstick) is an easy to use and dependable means of creating bootable USBs.
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