FlashBoot Alternatives

Apps similar to FlashBoot include Rufus, which is free and open source. Other options are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT. Bootable USB Creators like FlashBoot are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux and Mac.

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  1. mkusb icon
     3 likes

    (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.

    55 mkusb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Flash disk images onto your drives with ease. Select an image, insert your drive, and you're good to go!

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  3. SharpBoot icon
     5 likes

    SharpBoot is a small utility for creating multiboot ISO or USB. You just need to drag-n-drop some iso files inside, and it automatically adds description and category (for supported ISO files, not shown in the screenshot). It uses Syslinux for the menu and bootloader.

    37 SharpBoot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. TINU icon
     2 likes

    The open tool to create bootable macOS installers.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • GNOME MultiWriter can be used to write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once. Supported drive sizes are between 1Gb and 32Gb.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. EasyBoot icon
     6 likes

    EasyBoot makes creating a bootable CD or bootable DVD a straightforward process. Whether you want to make a MultiBoot CD that starts up in your language or you need bootable CDs with the company logo, EasyBoot meets your requirements.

    14 EasyBoot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Piw is a software to create bootable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin or Rufus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Pardus
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  8. USBWriter icon
     3 likes

    USBWriter is tiny Windows tool that lets you write an image file directly to an USB drive. It requires no installation and depends on no bloated framework, it's just a little program that you may put on your desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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