Rufus Alternatives
Rufus is described as 'Formats USB drives to various file systems and creates bootable USBs from ISOs. Supports MS-DOS/FreeDOS bootable sticks and offers BIOS or UEFI options' and is a leading bootable usb creator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Rufus for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flatpak and Flathub apps. The best Rufus alternative is Ventoy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rufus are UNetbootin, balenaEtcher, YUMI exFAT and dd.
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Rufus alternatives are mainly Bootable USB Creators but may also be Disk Imaging Tools or Disc Burners. Other popular filters includes Windows + Free and Windows + Free + Create bootable USB. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Rufus.- Bootable USB Creator
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1 like34 IsoDumper alternativesIsoDumper is a tool primarily for writing downloaded bootable ISO images to a USB stick.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
IsoDumper Features
DiscontinuedThe last version (0.32) is from November 2014.
IsoDumper VS Rufus
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Like this app50 AutoBootDisk alternativesAutomatically make a live bootable usb with ease with AutoBootDisk, a open-source program
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Windows
AutoBootDisk Features
DiscontinuedWebsite is not available. Last commit to the repository was on 26 Apr, 2018.
AutoBootDisk VS Rufus
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16 likes12 DiskMaker X alternativesDiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with many versions of OS X/macOS to build a bootable drive from OS X/macOS installer program (the one you download from the App Store).
License model
- Free • Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
DiskMaker X Features
DiskMaker X VS Rufus
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12 likes7 ImageUSB alternativesImageUSB 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.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
ImageUSB Features
ImageUSB VS Rufus
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Like this app22 WinUSB Maker Tool alternativesThis is a small utility tool that will help you format and create bootable flash drives for Windows 7/8. It can be useful if you want to create installation media from bootable ISOs and if you want to install Windows7/8 on a system that doesn't have a CD-ROM device installed.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Windows
WinUSB Maker Tool Features
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, released in February 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
WinUSB Maker Tool VS Rufus
Is WinUSB Maker Tool a good alternative to Rufus?
4 likes36 SharpBoot alternativesSharpBoot is a small utility for creating multiboot ISO or USB. You just need to drag-n-drop some iso files inside, and it automatically adds description and category (for supported ISO files, not shown in the screenshot). It uses Syslinux for the menu and bootloader.
SharpBoot Features
DiscontinuedLast release in January 2020 and last commit in December 2019
SharpBoot VS Rufus
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3 likes41 USBWriter alternativesUSBWriter 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Windows
USBWriter Features
DiscontinuedLast release in 2015
USBWriter VS Rufus
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Comments about DiskMaker X as an Alternative to Rufus
Rufus turns any CD Image to Bootable USB, while Diskmaker X works only with OS X disk images.
Only good to create OS X images - hence not an alternative as Rufus can create bootable USB from ANY image of ANY OS
only makes OS X bootable disks