balenaEtcher AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Disk Imaging Tools

The best Disk Imaging alternative to balenaEtcher 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 11 are Disk Imaging Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Disk Imaging Tool alternatives to balenaEtcher are Win32 Disk Imager, USBImager, ImageUSB and Impression (GTK).

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dd
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dd, that stands for ‘data duplicator’, is a command-line utility for Unix mainly used for copying and converting data.
42 dd alternatives
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Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
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Positive comment by Paul · Apr 2, 2020
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.
Positive comment by Guest · Jul 22, 2022
It's application free, and already, always installed in system !
Positive comment by sharmaganesha2 · Oct 9, 2020
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.
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dd is Free and Open SourcebalenaEtcher is also Free and Open Source
Win32 Disk Imager
87 likes
A utility that can write a raw backup image of your hard drive to a removable device or vice versa.
53 Win32 Disk Imager alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
United States
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Discontinued
The latest version is from 2017.
Win32 Disk Imager vs balenaEtcher Comments
Positive comment by TheDcoder · Mar 18, 2017
A lot smaller and more native to the Windows platform than Etcher
Negative comment by Guest · Jun 18, 2019
Win32 Disk Imager, despite its name, does not "create" disk images: it only writes/mounts pre-existing .img files to flash storage.
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Win32 Disk Imager is Free and Open SourcebalenaEtcher is also Free and Open Source
USBImager
24 likes
USBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Origin
International
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Raspberry Pi
Global
+1
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Discontinued
The latest version (1.0.10) was released in October 2023.
USBImager vs balenaEtcher Comments
Positive comment by rescuezilla · Dec 27, 2020
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.
Positive comment by docampoangel · Dec 4, 2022
Is like etcher but installed occupies 508,43 KiB in disk, instead 500MB of spyware and electron crap.
Positive comment by prog_uk · Nov 4, 2022
Small, simple and does everything it needs to without any unnecessary bells and whistles.
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USBImager is Free and Open SourcebalenaEtcher is also Free and Open Source
ImageUSB
13 likes
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.
13 ImageUSB alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Disk Imaging
Disk Cloning
Origin
Australia
Platforms
Windows
Australia
+1
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Impression (GTK)
4 likes
Flash disk images onto your drives with ease. Select an image, insert your drive, and you're good to go!
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Linux Mobile
Flathub
GNOME
United States
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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
Global
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IsoDumper
1 like
IsoDumper is a tool primarily for writing downloaded bootable ISO images to a USB stick.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Imaging
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
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Batch ISO Creator
4 likes
Batch ISO Creator is a Windows app for creating ISO files from folders with Batch Mode, Folder Mode, renaming rules, ISO Mounting, and an ISO Library.
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
ISO Mounting
ISO Creator
Origin
International
Platforms
Windows
Global
+5
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W
WinDiskFlash
3 likes
A tool for easily flashing or creating raw disk images (aka dd images) under Windows.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Bootable USB Creator
Disk Cloning
Origin
Hungary
EU
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
Hungary
EU
W
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AnyDistro-Disk-Imager
1 like
Disk Imager program built to run on any distribution of linux with gtk support. Designed to function like Win32 Disk Imager.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Disk Imaging
Disk Cloning
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
United States
A
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Flint (Windows)
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Flint is a Windows-native bootable USB and disk image writer for creating bootable removable media from ISO and DD images.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Bootable USB Creator
Origin
India
Platforms
Windows
India
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balenaEtcher AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Disk Imaging Tools

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