balenaEtcher Alternatives

balenaEtcher is described as 'Ideal for creating bootable USBs and SD cards, ensuring safe, cross-platform use. Open-source, lightweight, and portable with a user-friendly interface' and is a leading bootable usb creator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to balenaEtcher for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best balenaEtcher alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like balenaEtcher are Ventoy, UNetbootin, YUMI exFAT and Win32 Disk Imager.

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  2. WoeUSB icon

    WoeUSB

     29 likes

    WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501 s WinUSB.

    33 WoeUSB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. WinSetupFromUSB icon

    WinSetupFromUSB

     52 likes

    WinSetupFromUSB is a Windows program, which prepares multiboot USB flash or fixed disk to install any Windows versions since 2000/XP, boot various Linux and *BSD flavors, as well as many Windows, Linux, DOS based and other utilities. Since version 1.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. ApplePi-Baker v2 icon

    ApplePi-Baker v2

     147 likes

    Restore/Backup Utility, initially intended for Raspberry Pi users, but very suitable for all SD cards and external disks. More compression formats, no more sudo passwords, enable SSH, Auto Eject, restore to multiple disks, size check, shrink, etc.

    17 ApplePi-Baker v2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Aqua Theme and Dark Theme support
     
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    ApplePi-Baker v2 vs balenaEtcher Comments
    Ponyboy47
    Positive
    0

    Automatic backup of images Easy to use Great design

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Luis E Martinez S
    Positive
    0

    the level of customization at the time of restoring and image file to an sd card or usb drive, somethin that etcher lacks of it.

    • ApplePi-Baker v2 is Free and ProprietarybalenaEtcher is Free and Open Source
  9. SARDU icon

    SARDU

     37 likes

    SARDU (short for Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) creates a multiboot all-in-one USB drive, CD or DVD for free (personal and non commercial use). Hard disks, external hard disks and all removable media are supported.

    41 SARDU alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Fedora Media Writer icon

    Fedora Media Writer

     4 likes

    A tool to create a bootable live USB drive with an edition of Fedora. Not only can Fedora Media Writer write an image to your flash drive, it can also download it for you. It offers official editions (Server, Workstation), Fedora spins (KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce Desktop, Cinnamon...

    50 Fedora Media Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  12. Popsicle icon

    Popsicle

     3 likes

    Write an ISO or other image to multiple USB devices all at once. Easily preparing a bunch of flash drives of your favorite OS with just a couple of clicks.

    53 Popsicle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Popsicle screenshot 1
     
  13. FlashBoot icon

    FlashBoot

     6 likes

    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
    Main Window
     
  14. mintstick icon

    mintstick

     8 likes

    Linux Mint's USB Image Writer (mintstick) is an easy to use and dependable means of creating bootable USBs.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
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    mintstick vs balenaEtcher Comments
    guck_foogle
    Positive
    0

    It's simple, works, and doesn't collect your data.

    • mintstick is Free and Open SourcebalenaEtcher is also Free and Open Source
    • mintstick is Privacy focusedbalenaEtcher is not according to our users
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