Free UltraISO AlternativesTop ISO Creators & ISO Mounting Tools like UltraISO

The best free alternative to UltraISO is Rufus, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to UltraISO and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to UltraISO are WinCDEmu, DAEMON Tools, Virtual CloneDrive and K3b.

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  1. Rufus icon

    Rufus

     1570 likes

    Formats USB drives to FAT, NTFS, exFAT, and more, while creating bootable USBs from diverse ISOs. Supports MS-DOS/FreeDOS with no external files and offers BIOS or UEFI mode, including bad block check. Ideal for systems lacking an OS or flashing BIOS and lightweight, ad-free.

    72 Rufus alternatives

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about Rufus as an Alternative to UltraISO
    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    11

    Rufus is not for burning/mounting ISO, rather to create USB bootables from ISO images.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Tools are not the same. One is a Bootable USB tool, UltraISO is a ISO/Image suite

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    SkyKuker
    Negative
    0

    While Rufus can, indeed, burn the ISO to the flash drive, like UltraISO, it can't create nor edit the .iso files.

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    • This alternative is disputed. Rufus is a legitimate UltraISO alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Rufus is Free and Open SourceUltraISO is Paid and Proprietary
    • Rufus is Lightweight and Privacy focusedUltraISO is not according to our users
  2. WinCDEmu icon

    WinCDEmu

     529 likes

    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.

    39 WinCDEmu alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  4. DAEMON Tools icon

    DAEMON Tools

     989 likes

    Comprehensive disc imaging software supporting VHDs, ZIP archives, and password protection. Offers optical media emulation, iSCSI access, encryption via TrueCrypt, and up to 32 virtual drives. Essential for creating TrueCrypt images, emulating devices, encrypting data, and integrating with Windows systems.

    45 DAEMON Tools alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    DAEMON Tools

    Comprehensive disc imaging software supporting VHDs, ZIP archives, and password protection. Offers optical media emulation, iSCSI access, encryption via TrueCrypt, and up to 32 virtual drives. Essential for creating TrueCrypt ima...

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    Virtual CloneDrive

     394 likes

    Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files of various formats (.iso, .bin, etc) can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting...

    32 Virtual CloneDrive alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. K3b icon

    K3b

     258 likes

    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...

    52 K3b alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
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    Comments about K3b as an Alternative to UltraISO
    SkyKuker
    Negative
    1

    It can not burn from the image. Also, you can't edit the images in K3b, but you can do so in UltraISO.

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    • K3b is Free and Open SourceUltraISO is Paid and Proprietary
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    AnyBurn

     59 likes

    AnyBurn is a light weight but professional CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software that everyone must have. It provides a free and complete solution for burning.

    50 AnyBurn alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver icon

    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver

     87 likes

    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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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • BSD
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  11. Alcohol icon

    Alcohol

     128 likes

    Alcohol is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button.

    37 Alcohol alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware

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    • Windows
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    AcetoneISO

     53 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    AnyToISO

     11 likes

    [Lite version is totally free but it cannot deal with files greater than a regular CD size (870 MB) ].

    13 AnyToISO alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  14. Isobuster icon

    Isobuster

     30 likes

    Low cost utility to recover data from damaged, scratched, or otherwise defective discs. Highly specialized but still easy to use to read damaged CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD media. Free version has some limited functionality but is worth it to attempt data recovery.

    10 Isobuster alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    Dark mode
     
  15. CDemu icon

    CDemu

     25 likes

    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.

    31 CDemu alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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