Alternatives to DAEMON Tools for all platforms with any license

  • WinCDEmu

    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...

    • It works great, is open-source, extremely lighweight and comes with few useful options. Guest • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It's free of ads, free itself, and also open source and extremely lightweight and easy to use. frenchiveruti • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It is so lightweight and it is so easy to use plus it is open source. Guest • Mar 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It's really simple and doesn't install malware/trojans (like DAEMON Tools does). Like it better than DAEMON Tools! Guest • Jan 2018 Disagree   Agree
    • Open Source, lightweight, works right out of the box. The best alternative without doubt. Guest • Apr 2018 Disagree   Agree
    • In contrast to Daemon Tools, WinCDEmu doesn't support audio CDs. rboehme • May 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Even better than Daemon Tools. I'm so happy I found that one! Even solves licensing problems for my company w.r.t. Daemon Tools ;-) Guest • Apr 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Instant, no need to create virtual drives manually. Guest • May 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • The best virtual disc app ever in my mind, because I can mount the ISO directly without doing any settings. Guest • Feb 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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  • Virtual CloneDrive

    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...

    • Very simplistic interface and easy to use. Unlike Daemon Tools' complicated one bystro • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Windows

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  • PowerISO

    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...

    • Bundleware The installer contains ads. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

    Commercial Windows

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  • AcetoneISO

    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...

    • Discontinued The latest update on SourceForge was on 2013-10-25.

    Free Open Source Linux

    Convert DVD to AVI Add a feature

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  • Alcohol

    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...

    • Bundleware The 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.

    Freemium Windows

    Built-in Burner Add a feature

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  • MagicISO

    MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating/editing/extracting tool. It can open / create / edit /extract CD/DVD image files, and it can convert bin to iso and...

    • Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 5.5(build 281), released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    Freemium Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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  • Furius ISO Mount

    Furius ISO Mount is a simple Gtk+ Interface to Mount ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image files without burning to disk. An ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image management...

    • Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 0.11.3.1, released in January 2011, can be still downloaded from Softpedia

    Free Open Source Linux

    No features added Add a feature

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  • CDemu

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    No features added Add a feature

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  • DVDFab Virtual Drive

    DVDFab Virtual Drive is a virtual emulator for both DVD and Blu-ray. It can emulate 18 drives and mount DVD/Blu-ray ISO image files created by DVDFab and other programs....

    Free Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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Comment by SeanJA
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 4 Helpful Report as spam

This was good until it added spyware and adware to it's install.

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Comment by evan
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

I used to use this till they went overboard with the bloat/advertisements. I use Virtual Clone Drive now and IMHO it's just better all around. I'm not sure if Daemon Tools has improved over the years though because I haven't been using it.

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Comment by Thordelan
about DAEMON Tools · Nov 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

...it is tagged as portable ?

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Comment by DataBitz
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Can't be used in commercial operations, use Virtual Clone Drive instead.

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Comment by gordonthefree33
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Another junk program You mount the file after creating the virtual drive but you cannot play it, the play button is grayed out

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Comment by northar
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Good, but also be warned, the installer want's to install a lot of junk, like extra toolbars,etc

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Comment by klischee
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This entry is quite incorrect. The name is "Daemon Tools", but the screenshot shows DAEMON Tools Pro, and the licence is set to free, but it's free for personal use only (Lite) or commercial (Pro). The icon and author/company is wrong too. Edit: I've changed the title to "DAEMON Tools Lite" now, deleted the screenshot and changed the licence to free for personal use. "DAEMON Tools Pro" is another piece of software and should get it's own entry. :)

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Comment by Mur
about DAEMON Tools · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

using Windows 7 x64 and its been working great. A while ago it did not support windows 7 but its been fine for about a half a year now.

Daemon Tools is good for mounting almost any cd image file type and is pretty light weight and has a nice interface.

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