Caligula Alternatives

Caligula is described as 'A user-friendly, lightweight TUI wrapper for the dd command written in Rust that performs easy disk imaging and ISO burning with only a single command with graphs and rich confirmation dialogs' and is a bootable usb creator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Caligula for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best Caligula alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Caligula are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT.

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  1. YUMI UEFI icon
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    YUMI UEFI is a multiboot USB maker tool that utilizes GRUB2 for both BIOS and UEFI booting. It is important to note that the UEFI version is not backwards compatible with YUMI legacy. In addition, your drive must be Fat32 formatted to support booting in UEFI mode.

    49 YUMI UEFI alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. mkusb icon
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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.

    53 mkusb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. ImageUSB icon
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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
     
  4. Bootqt icon
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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
     
  5. 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...

    47 ROSA Image Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. TINU icon
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    The open tool to create bootable macOS installers.

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. FlashBoot icon
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    FlashBoot is a tool to create an installable clone of Windows 7/8.x/10 (including all your apps and data) on the USB thumbdrive/HDD and instantly transfer your entire OS to another computer, even with dissimilar hardware:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
     
  9. Active@ Disk Image is a disk image software that can do a backup as well as clone the full hard drive. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other media.

    65 Active@ Disk Image alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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