balenaEtcher AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Disk Imaging Tools for Mac

There are many alternatives to balenaEtcher for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac Disk Imaging Tool alternative is dd, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to balenaEtcher and three of them are Disk Imaging Tools available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Disk Imaging Tool alternatives to balenaEtcher are USBImager and Caligula.

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balenaEtcher alternatives page was last updated Jun 25, 2025

dd
103 likes
dd, that stands for ‘data duplicator’, is a command-line utility for Unix mainly used for copying and converting data.
42 dd alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
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dd vs balenaEtcher Comments

Paul
Positive commentApr 2, 2020
1
A good command-line alternative that comes with Unix-based operating systems. It's what I use on my MacBook to burn Linux ISO images on my USB drive.
Guest
Positive commentJul 22, 2022
0
It's application free, and already, always installed in system !
Review by a new / low-activity user.
sharmaganesha2
Positive commentOct 9, 2020
0
It's command line. That means it does not have garbage inside the program. But it might freak some people out. But Literally, you have Git Bash so you can use DD on Windows.

The usage:

$ lsblk /dev/sdb 28G /dev/sda 931G $ dd if=popos.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress

It's really nice.
Review by a new / low-activity user.
dd is Free and Open SourcebalenaEtcher is also Free and Open Source
USBImager
23 likes
USBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups.
23 USBImager alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Origin
International
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Raspberry Pi
+1
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USBImager vs balenaEtcher Comments

rescuezilla
Positive commentDec 27, 2020
1
USBImager is a 300 kilobyte download compared to balenaEtcher's 80+ megabyte. They're both cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux). The reason is USBImager is a native app while balenaEtcher is an Electron app.

balenaEtcher is still a bit more user-friendly, but USBImager is by far the best cross-platform alternative right now.
docampoangel
Positive commentDec 4, 2022
1
Is like etcher but installed occupies 508,43 KiB in disk, instead 500MB of spyware and electron crap.
prog_uk
Positive commentNov 4, 2022
0
Small, simple and does everything it needs to without any unnecessary bells and whistles.
Review by a new / low-activity user.
USBImager is Free and Open SourcebalenaEtcher is also Free and Open Source
Caligula
2 likes
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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Bootable USB Creator
Origin
International
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Arch Linux
Nix Package Manager
Homebrew
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