ISO Creators
Creating an ISO to be burned on to a disc can come in handy when needing to install certain legacy software or for friends or family members running older computer hardware or operating systems that need to install certain content by running an ISO off of a disc. Software supporting ISO creation includes MagicISO and AcetoneISO.
- 1519 likes67 ImgBurn alternatives
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.
+6DiscontinuedThe last version 2.5.8.0 is from June 2013.
- 984 likes44 DAEMON Tools alternatives
Disc imaging and mounting software with support for VHD, ZIP, and remote access. Offers encryption and iSCSI imaging with Windows integration.
+20DAEMON Tools Features
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- 253 likes62 K3b alternatives
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...
K3b Features
- 298 likes55 Brasero alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- GNOME
+1 - 176 likes63 UltraISO alternatives
CD image files are easily created with UltraISO. Duplicate discs to a CD image, create bootable CDs and audio CD images - and UltraISO also handles DVD image files. If you need to know how to make a CD image or need to edit an ISO image file, UltraISO is the tool you need.
UltraISO Features
DiscontinuedThe latest version (9.76) is from May 2021.
- 163 likes59 PowerISO alternatives
PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
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- 196 likes74 Nero Burning ROM alternatives
Offers disc burning, audio conversion, and ripping features with high security, ISO creation, and SecurDisc 4.0 for impeccable data protection.
+1Nero Burning ROM Features
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- 57 likes58 AnyBurn alternatives
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.
- 127 likes37 Alcohol alternatives
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.
Alcohol Features
BundlewareThe free version of Alcohol 52% contains an optional adware toolbar bundled. It also installs Smart File Advisor without allowing you to uncheck this option during setup.
- 95 likes41 Burn alternatives
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.
+5Burn Features
- 51 likes50 AcetoneISO alternatives
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...
AcetoneISO Features
- 28 likes10 Isobuster alternatives
Low cost utility to recover data from damaged, scratched, or otherwise defective discs. Highly specialized but still easy to use to read damaged CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD media. Free version has some limited functionality but is worth it to attempt data recovery.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- 3 likes4 Cubic alternatives
Cubic features an integrated command line chroot environment to make the customizations and permits effortless navigation, backward and forward, through the ISO generation steps. You can create new customization projects or modify existing projects.
Cubic Features
- 8 likes57 ISO Workshop alternatives
ISO Workshop is a free Windows desktop application specifically designed to facilitate ISO image management and conversion, as well as CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc burning and copying operations.
ISO Workshop Features
- 9 likes19 DVDFab Virtual Drive alternatives
DVDFab Virtual Drive (once known as ExplorerFab) is a virtual DVD/Blu-ray/Ultra HD emulator. It emulates a maximum of 18 drives and works with DVD/Blu-ray images created by DVDFab and other programs.
DVDFab Virtual Drive Features