The Best Free DAEMON Tools AlternativesTop ISO Mounting Tools & Disc Burners like DAEMON Tools

The best free alternative to DAEMON Tools is WinCDEmu, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to DAEMON Tools and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to DAEMON Tools are Virtual CloneDrive, ImgBurn, CDBurnerXP and K3b.

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  1. WinCDEmu icon

    WinCDEmu

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    WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it.

    39 WinCDEmu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comment summary: WinCDEmu is praised for its lightweight, open-source nature, ease of use, and lack of ads or unwanted software. It is often preferred over DAEMON Tools, with some users citing it as a reliable and free alternative. However, it lacks support for specific features such as handling old mixed data CDs and SCSI, which DAEMON Tools can manage. While Windows 10 is noted for ISO mounting capabilities, WinCDEmu is still seen as a necessary and reliable tool.
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    It works great, is open-source, extremely lighweight and comes with few useful options.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    rboehme
    2

    In contrast to Daemon Tools, WinCDEmu doesn't support audio CDs.

    Hexaae
    Positive
    0

    WinCDEmu is very good for data CDs/DVDs, but unfortunately can't for example handle old mixed data CDs (e.g. old games from Win98/Amiga era with data+music). Daemon Tools Lite can do that instead, just for example.

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    • Almost everyone thinks WinCDEmu is a great DAEMON Tools alternative.

    • WinCDEmu is the most popular Windows alternative to DAEMON Tools.

    • WinCDEmu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to DAEMON Tools.

    • WinCDEmu is Free and Open SourceDAEMON Tools is Freemium and Proprietary
    • WinCDEmu is LightweightDAEMON Tools is not according to our users
  2. Virtual CloneDrive icon

    Virtual CloneDrive

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    Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files of various formats (.iso, .bin, etc) can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting...

    32 Virtual CloneDrive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    bystro
    Positive
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    Very simplistic interface and easy to use. Unlike Daemon Tools' complicated one

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    • Almost everyone thinks Virtual CloneDrive is a great DAEMON Tools alternative.

    • Virtual CloneDrive is Free and ProprietaryDAEMON Tools is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. ImgBurn icon

    ImgBurn

     1523 likes
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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.

    57 ImgBurn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. CDBurnerXP icon

    CDBurnerXP

     610 likes
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    CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.

    50 CDBurnerXP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. K3b icon

    K3b

     257 likes
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    K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as...

    52 K3b alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
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  7. Brasero icon

    Brasero

     300 likes
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    Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the GNOME Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

    45 Brasero alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  9. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver icon

    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver

     87 likes
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    ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT through Windows 10. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM Disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.

    37 ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • BSD
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    AcetoneISO

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    AcetoneISO, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other...

    43 AcetoneISO alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    Alcohol

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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.

    37 Alcohol alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

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    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    CDemu

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    CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert Penz.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Comments about CDemu as an Alternative to DAEMON Tools
    0x6A7232
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    Works on Linux to mount .cue / .bin pairs (just converting to .iso doesn't cut it as you lose the CD audio tracks that way and only get the data track)

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    • CDemu is Free and Open SourceDAEMON Tools is Freemium and Proprietary
  13. DVDFab Virtual Drive icon

    DVDFab Virtual Drive

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    Emulates up to 18 virtual DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD drives on Windows, mounts and unmounts .iso, .img, .miniso, .nrg, and other formats, integrates with Windows Explorer, supports shell context menu, offers auto-mount, auto-unmount, multilingual UI, and is free to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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