The Best Open Source DAEMON Tools AlternativesTop ISO Mounting Tools & Disc Burners like DAEMON Tools

The best open source alternative to DAEMON Tools is WinCDEmu. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to DAEMON Tools and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to DAEMON Tools are K3b, Brasero, ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver and AcetoneISO.

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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

    Application types

    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
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    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
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    K3b

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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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  4. Brasero icon

    Brasero

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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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  5. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver icon

    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver

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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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  6. AcetoneISO icon

    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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  7. CDemu icon

    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.

    31 CDemu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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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
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    Burn

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    Burn is a free optical disc authoring application with a simple interface that offers a lot of advanced options. The program supports the creation of data, audio and video discs, and is capable of copying data and audio discs.

    37 Burn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    Arsenal Image Mounter

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    Arsenal Image Mounter mounts the contents of disk images as complete disks in Microsoft Windows. Arsenal Image Mounter includes a virtual SCSI adapter (via a unique Storport miniport driver) which allows users to benefit from disk-specific features in Windows like integration...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  11. Aaru Data Preservation Suite icon

    Aaru Data Preservation Suite

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    A software package to preserve all storage media from the very old to the cutting edge, as well as to give detailed information about any supported image file & to extract the files from those images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  13. gISOmount icon

    gISOmount

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    gISOMount is a simple graphical interface to enable the mounting of ISO's with ease. Useful for if you are involved with beta testing of isos and need to quickly mount them wo check which version they, or to grab files off isos stored on a HDD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  14. FuseISO

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    FuseISO is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images (.iso, .nrg, .bin, .mdf and .img files). It currently support plain ISO9660 Level 1 and 2, Rock Ridge, Joliet, and zisofs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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