macUSB Alternatives

macUSB is described as 'The easiest way to create legacy macOS bootable drives on modern Macs. Revive old Intel Macs using your Apple Silicon machine — no terminal knowledge required' and is a bootable usb creator in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 50 alternatives to macUSB for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best macUSB alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like macUSB are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT.

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  1. ApplePi-Baker v2 icon
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    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
     
  2. WinSetupFromUSB icon
     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.

    50 WinSetupFromUSB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. SARDU icon
     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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. ImageUSB icon
     12 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.

    10 ImageUSB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. mintstick icon
     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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