Rufus Alternatives for Mac
Rufus is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is balenaEtcher, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Rufus and 17 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Rufus are UNetbootin, dd, Deepin Boot Maker and WinDiskWriter.
Rufus alternatives are mainly Bootable USB Creators but may also be Disk Imaging Tools or DVD Burners. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Rufus.- 51 balenaEtcher alternatives
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
balenaEtcher is a free and open-source image burner with support for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. It makes USB and SD card image burning as simple and fast as possible.
- - balenaEtcher is the most popular Mac alternative to Rufus.
balenaEtcher Features
Comments about balenaEtcher as a Alternative to Rufus
Ezra DulaneyFairly fast and works great for flashing Raspberry Pi. It supports validation to make sure the image was successfully flashed.
1espectalllIt's simple, it's easy, it's slick, and it's multiplatform, May not be for everyone, but surely is for most people.
9Cannot select between gpt and mbr partition styles
564xfzgb7iyMaking Ubuntu boot disk failed all the time in balenaEtcher, but succeed on the first try with Rufus.
0Vinay MalhotraStable secure less confusing Easy and Fast
0 - 55 UNetbootin alternatives
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can load Linux and other distributions to a partition or USB drive. It loads distributions either by downloading listed Linux and BSD like distributions, a variety of system utilities and rescue disks ISO...
UNetbootin Features
- Portable
- Privacy focused
- Ad-free
- Lightweight
Comments about UNetbootin as a Alternative to Rufus
KandiEasy to use. Supports a huge variety of platforms
18Fast, easy to use and in a few clicks you're good to go
12does not do UEFI mode does not recognize external hdd/ sdd does not do windows bootable drives and have issues even with some linux distros does not do multiple booting images on single drive
12UNetbootin is for Linux Distributions. Rufus is for creating bootable USBs in general, independant from the target OS.
1Does use current versions of "syslinux" and therefore does not create bootable media for a lot firmware ISO files, etc..
7 - 33 dd alternatives
- Bootable USB Creator
- Disk Imaging Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
dd, that stands for ‘data duplicator’, is a command-line utility for Unix mainly used for copying and converting data.
dd Features
- Command line interface
No screenshotComments about dd as a Alternative to Rufus
It's the only one that seems to be able to create BSD flash drives
2Considering this has been developed since 1974, it is very good at what it does.
0cvanellicrappy command line only program.
-10It works very well, only for the non Dufus.
-4allows use of the command line
0 - 44 Deepin Boot Maker alternatives
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Deepin Boot Maker is a boot maker developed by Deepin Technology Team. It is simple in interface and easy to operate. It helps users to easily make deepin boot disk.
Deepin Boot Maker Features
Comments about Deepin Boot Maker as a Alternative to Rufus
easy to use and run perfectly on mac
1 - 49 WinDiskWriter alternatives
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
A macOS app that creates bootable USB drives for Windows. Patches Windows 11 to bypass TPM and Secure Boot requirements.
- 49 Fedora Media Writer alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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...
- 44 ROSA Image Writer alternatives
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can...
ROSA Image Writer Features
DiscontinuedLast update was in 2016.
Comments about ROSA Image Writer as a Alternative to Rufus
Easy to use, multi-platform
0its quick stable & versatile no errors on any I made
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