USBImager Alternatives

USBImager is described as 'Really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups' and is a bootable usb creator in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to USBImager for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best USBImager alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like USBImager are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, dd and macUSB.

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  1. ImageUSB icon

    ImageUSB

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    ImageUSB 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Reading UFD image.
     
  2. 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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. mkusb icon

    mkusb

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    (Straight up rufus for Linux users ) The mkusb tool was developed to make it simpler and safer to create boot drives with the method to flash or clone an iso image or a compressed image file. It is using dd under the hood.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. 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.

    54 Bootqt alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Bootqt screenshot 1
     
  9. ROSA Image Writer icon

    ROSA Image Writer

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    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...

    48 ROSA Image Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    ROSA Image Writer screenshot 1
     
  12. Pardus Image Writer icon

    Pardus Image Writer

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    Piw is a software to create bootable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin or Rufus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Pardus
    Pardus Image Writer screenshot 1
     
  13. P

    PyFlash

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    A USB ISO flashing program written for Linux. I noticed that there was no Rufus alternative for Linux, so I made one!

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  14. D

    DDWrap

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    DDWrap provides a graphical interface around dd, written in Python and using the Qt toolkit.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
    DDWrap screenshot 1
     
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