Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Windows
Germany
EU


Pardus Image Writer has been discontinued. Similar apps include Rufus, which is free and open source. Other options are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT. You're spoiled for choice with Bootable USB Creators like Pardus Image Writer: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux and Mac.


Flexible and configurable USB drive multiboot solution which also supports UEFI booting.


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.


RMPrepUSB allows the Windows user to easily and quickly 'roll their own' multiboot USB drive.


Write an ISO or other image to multiple USB devices all at once. Easily preparing a bunch of flash drives of your favorite OS with just a couple of clicks.




A minimal image flasher for macOS (and soon Linux). Think Balena Etcher, but without the telemetry, the bloat, or the bundled Chromium. It wraps the reliable dd(1) shell tool directly under the hood.

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...


WinToUSB is a free software that allows you to install and run Windows operating system on a USB hard drive or USB flash drive, using an ISO image or CD/DVD drive as the source of installation. WinToUSB also support creating bootable WinPE USB drive, it can help you to transfer...




Linux Mint's USB Image Writer (mintstick) is an easy to use and dependable means of creating bootable USBs.


ISO to USB is a free and small software that can burn the ISO image file directly to the USB drives, these USB drives include USB flash drives, memory sticks and other USB storage devices, it also supports to create a bootable USB disk with Windows operating systems.

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.

Bootqt is a simple app for making a bootable USB drive from an ISO or IMG file. It is written in Python and uses Qt technologies to provide an easy to use graphical user interface.


