123 Like GRUB Good alternative? YES NO GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn. ... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Solaris OpenSolaris No features added Add a feature
82 Like EasyBCD Good alternative? YES NO EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is possible, e.g. to boot a Win7-VHD-image.... Free Personal Windows No features added Add a feature
26 Like PLoP Boot Manager Good alternative? YES NO The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB. You can start... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
10 Like Grub Customizer Good alternative? YES NO Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
5 Like Visual BCD Editor Good alternative? YES NO Visual BCD Editor - advanced GUI version of bcdedit utility. Automatic boot loader creation - Windows 7|Vista|XP|VHD. Fix boot manager and dual boot problems. Free Windows Boot from USB without BIOS Add a feature
5 Like BootIt Bare Metal Good alternative? YES NO BootIt Bare Metal is a boot manager and partition manager software utility. Whither you want to do non-destructive repartitioning or boot multiple operating systems... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
5 Like Chameleon Bootloader Good alternative? YES NO Chameleon is a boot loader for Mac OS X. It seems that standard boot loaders for Mac OS X either lack many cool features, or have many cool features, but are... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
2 Like OSL2000 Boot Manager Good alternative? YES NO OSL2000 is an advanced multi boot manager. Using OSL2000 boot manager, you can directly install, boot and manage upto 100 independent OSs in your computer. Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
2 Like DualBootPRO Good alternative? YES NO A boot editor for the Windows 7/Vista bootloader. Takes the pain out of BCDEDIT. The logical and easy to use DualBootPRO interface makes it easy for both the novice... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
3 Like BURG Good alternative? YES NO burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB . It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project is no longer maintained. Last version, released on 18 October 2010, can be still downloaded from Google Code.
7 Like VMLite VBoot Good alternative? YES NO VBoot allows you to boot a physical computer from a single virtual disk file in VHD/VMDK/VDI/Raw format. Each file contains a single operating system. It supports... Commercial Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
11 Like GRUB for DOS Good alternative? YES NO GRUB for DOS is an universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB. It can boot various OSes (some directly, some using their standard boot managers) on different media (HDD... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
4 Like rEFIt Good alternative? YES NO rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot... Free Open Source Mac No features added Add a feature Discontinued rEFIt is no longer maintained since 2013. The author suggested to check out http://alternativeto.net/software/refind/ , a fork of the original program.
2 Like bootcfg Good alternative? YES NO Used to edit boot configuration data on Windows systems. Predecessor of bcdedit. Found on Windows XP and prior versions. Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
2 Like Extended Operating System Loader YES NO Written in C++ and licensed under GNU GPL, XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) is a user-friendly, window-based graphical boot manager handling large disks and over... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued Since XOSL is no longer maintained, but still usable, a modified version has stemmed form the original one: see https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl2/
