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. USBWriter icon
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    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.

    43 USBWriter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. YUMI UEFI icon
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    YUMI UEFI is a multiboot USB maker tool that utilizes GRUB2 for both BIOS and UEFI booting. It is important to note that the UEFI version is not backwards compatible with YUMI legacy. In addition, your drive must be Fat32 formatted to support booting in UEFI mode.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Image Writer icon
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    An application to write .raw .iso or .img files to USB disks. Easy to use. No install is needed. Raspberry Pi sd cards or Hackintosh USBs can be made with this.

    32 Image Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4.  Like

    DDWrap provides a graphical interface around dd, written in Python and using the Qt toolkit.

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    • Linux
    • Python
     
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    A USB ISO flashing program written for Linux. I noticed that there was no Rufus alternative for Linux, so I made one!

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
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