UNetbootin Alternatives

UNetbootin is described as 'Cross-platform utility to create bootable USB drives or Live USBs, with a built-in downloader for Linux ISO images and rescue disks' and is a leading bootable usb creator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to UNetbootin for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best UNetbootin alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like UNetbootin are balenaEtcher, Ventoy, YUMI exFAT and Universal USB Installer.

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UNetbootin alternatives are mainly Bootable USB Creators, but if you're looking for Disk Imaging Tools or ISO Creators you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Linux and Mac + Create bootable USB. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to UNetbootin.
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  1. WinUSB - multiboot icon

    WinUSB - multiboot

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    WinUSB - simple, portable and lightweight tool, lets you create multiple Windows bootable USB flash drive using ISOs or DVDs. Formatting drive is not required when free space is enough. Boot with NTFS flash drive in UEFI system supported for most PC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  2. SharpBoot icon

    SharpBoot

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    SharpBoot is a small utility for creating multiboot ISO or USB. You just need to drag-n-drop some iso files inside, and it automatically adds description and category (for supported ISO files, not shown in the screenshot). It uses Syslinux for the menu and bootloader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  4. TINU icon

    TINU

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    The open tool to create bootable macOS installers.

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  5. Startup Disk Creator icon

    Startup Disk Creator

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    Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04.

    12 Startup Disk Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
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  6. TekDT USB Creator icon

    TekDT USB Creator

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    TekDT USB Creator is an automatic Windows installation USB/Hard drive creation free software. Help you install Windows for your computer as quickly, simply and as easily as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    TekDT USB Creator screenshot 1
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    Tuxboot

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    Tuxboot helps you to create a bootable Live USB drive for Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. It is modified from UNetbootin and runs on both MS Windows and GNU/Linux. You can choose to download the latest version of Clonezilla live, DRBL live, or GParted live...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Bootqt icon

    Bootqt

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    Bootqt is a simple app for making a bootable USB drive from an ISO or IMG file. It is written in Python and uses Qt technologies to provide an easy to use graphical user interface.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  10. mintstick icon

    mintstick

     8 likes

    Linux Mint's USB Image Writer (mintstick) is an easy to use and dependable means of creating bootable USBs.

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
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    AutoBootDisk

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    Automatically make a live bootable usb with ease with AutoBootDisk, a open-source program

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  12. dd-Etcher icon

    dd-Etcher

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    A minimal image flasher for macOS (and soon Linux). Think Balena Etcher, but without the telemetry, the bloat, or the bundled Chromium. It wraps the reliable dd(1) shell tool directly under the hood.

    51 dd-Etcher alternatives

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  13. IsoDumper icon

    IsoDumper

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    IsoDumper is a tool primarily for writing downloaded bootable ISO images to a USB stick.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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