Free Nero Burning ROM Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Nero Burning ROM for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is ImgBurn. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ImgBurn or BurnAware. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Nero Burning ROM and many of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Nero Burning ROM are Ashampoo Burning Studio, Alcohol, DVD Flick and Astroburn.

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  1. ImgBurn icon
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    ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application (39 languages) that everyone should have in their toolkit. ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats. It can burn Audio CDs from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM.

    52 ImgBurn alternatives

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    • Free Personal
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  2. BurnAware icon
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    Enables writing files to CD, DVD, Blu-ray, BDXL, and M-Disc, supports boot, multisession, audio, and video discs, ISO creation, data backup, file recovery, spanning, command-line, and a stable multilingual interface for Windows systems.

    37 BurnAware alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Bundleware

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    • Windows
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  3. AnyBurn icon
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    AnyBurn is a light weight but professional CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software that everyone must have. It provides a free and complete solution for burning.

    46 AnyBurn alternatives

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  4. The classic burning software – modern, reliable, future-proof.

    55 Ashampoo Burning Studio alternatives

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  5. Alcohol icon
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    Alcohol is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button.

    36 Alcohol alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware

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  6. DVD Flick icon
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    DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set.

    33 DVD Flick alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Wine
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  7. Astroburn icon
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    The best choice for those who want to have quick and easy-to-use home program with essential features to perform disc burning.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • HK flagHong Kong SAR China
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  8. Cisdem DVD Burner can burn any videos to playable DVD with high quality. You can edit the video and customize DVD menu to create special DVDs for different occasions and events.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. gBurner icon
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    gBurner is a powerful disc burning and imaging software, which allows you to create data, audio and video CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, make bootable data discs, create multisession discs. gBurner also supports image file processing, virtual drive, and bootable USB drive creation.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. Express Burn icon
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    Burns audio, MP3, data CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs with direct digital recording and format conversion. Re-encodes videos to DVD Movie, supports chapter management, PAL/NTSC, ISO images, command-line automation, trial for DVD/Blu-ray features.

    23 Express Burn alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. AmoK CD/DVD Burning is for all those people who think burning programs such as Nero or WinOnCD are too overloaded with functionality that no one needs. AmoK CD/DVD Burning does not have a media center, wave editor, cover designer and cannot create videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  12. StarBurn icon
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    StarBurn is a free and powerful tool that allows its users to grab, burn and master CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. The program supports all types of optical storage media (including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) and a wide variety of burning...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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