Raspberry Pi Imager Alternatives

Raspberry Pi Imager is described as 'Use Raspberry Pi Imager for an easy way to install Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to an SD card ready to use with your Raspberry Pi' and is a bootable usb creator in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Raspberry Pi Imager for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best Raspberry Pi Imager alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Raspberry Pi Imager are balenaEtcher, UNetbootin, YUMI exFAT and Universal USB Installer.

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  1. 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...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. WinToUSB icon
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    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...

    54 WinToUSB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. Popsicle icon
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    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.

    54 Popsicle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. mkusb icon
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    (Straight up rufus for Linux users ) The mkusb tool was developed to make it simpler and safer to create boot drives with the method to flash or clone an iso image or a compressed image file. It is using dd under the hood.

    54 mkusb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. 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.

    49 YUMI UEFI alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Bootqt icon
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    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.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. TINU icon
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    The open tool to create bootable macOS installers.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
     
  8. IsoDumper icon
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    IsoDumper is a tool primarily for writing downloaded bootable ISO images to a USB stick.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9.  Like

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

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    • Linux
    • Python
     
  10.  Like

    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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    • Linux
    • Python
     
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