The Best Open Source PowerISO AlternativesTop Disc Burners & ISO Creators like PowerISO

The best open source alternative to PowerISO is WinCDEmu. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to PowerISO and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to PowerISO are K3b, Brasero, ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver and AcetoneISO.

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  1. WinCDEmu icon
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    WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it.

    38 WinCDEmu alternatives

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  2. K3b icon
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    K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as...

    51 K3b alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
     
  3. Brasero icon
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    Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the GNOME Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

    44 Brasero alternatives

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  4. ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT through Windows 10. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM Disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.

    37 ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver alternatives

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  5. AcetoneISO icon
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    AcetoneISO, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other...

    43 AcetoneISO alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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  6. CDemu icon
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    CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert Penz.

    29 CDemu alternatives

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    • Free
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  7. Iso Master icon
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    [You need a C compiler to install it from source.]

    ISO Master is an open-source, easy to use, graphical CD image editor for Linux and BSD. Basically you can use this program to extract files from an ISO, add files to an ISO, and create bootable ISOs - all in a graphical user in.

    18 Iso Master alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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  8. A software package to preserve all storage media from the very old to the cutting edge, as well as to give detailed information about any supported image file & to extract the files from those images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Silicon Empire is set of tools to Burn, Copy, Backup, Manage and … your optical discs like CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays. When you start working with silicon Empire Just feels everything done easily and quickly with high quality.

    41 Silicon Empire alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  10. xorriso icon
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    xorriso itself is entirely controlled by text commands.In dialog mode, xorriso reads them as text lines from standard input. Together with some helpful xorriso commands,it is quite easy for frontend programs to operate a separate xorriso process.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
     
  11. FlBurn icon
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    FlBurn is an optical disc burning software for linux based on the libraries FLTK and libburnia.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
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    FuseISO is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images (.iso, .nrg, .bin, .mdf and .img files). It currently support plain ISO9660 Level 1 and 2, Rock Ridge, Joliet, and zisofs.

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    • Free
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