UltraISO AlternativesOnly apps from the EU

The best alternative to UltraISO is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to UltraISO and 13 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to UltraISO are WinCDEmu, DAEMON Tools, K3b and ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver.

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UltraISO alternatives are mainly ISO Creators, but if you're looking for ISO Mounting Tools or Disc Burners you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux + Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to UltraISO.
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Edit, extract, and convert ISO and DVD image files, manage directories, create bootable media, support major image formats, optimize structure, and integrate with shell.

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UltraISO alternatives page was last updated May 21, 2025
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  1. Rufus icon
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    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.

    68 Rufus alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Optimal performance
    3.  User friendly

    Features

    1.  Create bootable USB
    2.  Portable
    3.  Burn iso
    4.  Windows To Go
    5.  UEFI Support
    6.  Write ISO to SD card
    7.  Create bootable Image
    8.  Create BIOS bootable drive
    9.  Create UEFI bootable drive
    10.  GNU/linux-libre
    11.  USB to FAT
    12.  USB to NTFS

    Rufus VS UltraISO

     
    Comments about Rufus as an Alternative to UltraISO
    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    Sep 1, 2019
    10

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

    Most Recent Comment
    Guest
    Negative Apr 10, 2024
    0

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

    SkyKuker
    Negative Apr 16, 2023
    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 the most popular Windows alternative to UltraISO.

    • Rufus is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to UltraISO.

    • Rufus is Free and Open SourceUltraISO is Paid and Proprietary
    • Rufus is LightweightUltraISO is not according to our users
  2. 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.

    39 WinCDEmu alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • EE flagEstonia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 4.1, released on September 29, 2015, can be still downloaded from GitHub

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Mounting ISO
    2.  Disk Imaging
    3.  Mounting drives
    4.  Emulation
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Virtual Disk
    7.  Portable
    8.  CD Burner
    9.  Multiple languages

    WinCDEmu VS UltraISO

     
  3. DAEMON Tools icon
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    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.

    44 DAEMON Tools alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    DAEMON Tools Features

    1.  Disk Imaging
    2.  Disc Burner
    3.  CD Burner
    4.  Virtual Disk
    5.  ISO Editing
    6. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Stream video to Android TV

    DAEMON Tools VS UltraISO

     
    • Some users think DAEMON Tools is a great UltraISO alternative, some don't.

    • DAEMON Tools is the most popular Mac alternative to UltraISO.

    • DAEMON Tools is Freemium and ProprietaryUltraISO is Paid and Proprietary
  4. 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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE

    K3b Features

    1.  CD Burner
    2.  DVD Burner
    3.  Ad-free

    K3b VS UltraISO

     
    Comments about K3b as an Alternative to UltraISO
    SkyKuker
    Negative Apr 16, 2023
    0

    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 the most popular Linux alternative to UltraISO.

    • K3b is Free and Open SourceUltraISO is Paid and Proprietary
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    ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 or Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM Disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory. The install package installs a console-mode control program called imdisk.

    38 ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • BSD
    Discontinued

    The latest version (2.1.1) is from December 2022.

    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    2.  Virtual Disk
    3.  Support for UDF extension
    4.  Multiple languages

    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver VS UltraISO

     
  6. 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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • GR flagGreece
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    AcetoneISO Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Copyright-free
    3.  Copywriting
    4.  Copy & paste actions
    5.  Virtual Disk
    6.  Convert DVD to AVI

    AcetoneISO VS UltraISO

     
  7. Isobuster icon
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    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

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • BE flagBelgium
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode

    Isobuster VS UltraISO

     
  8. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD

    xorriso Features

    1.  Command line interface

    xorriso VS UltraISO

     
  9. Astroburn icon
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    The best choice for those who want to have quick and easy-to-use home program with essential features to perform disc burning.

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    last updated: Aug 23rd 2018, 09:03 GMThttps://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Astroburn.shtml

    Astroburn Features

    1.  CD Burner
    2.  DVD Burner

    Astroburn VS UltraISO

     
  10. DAA2ISO icon
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    DAA2ISO is an open source command-line/GUI tool for converting single and multipart DAA and GBI images to the original ISO format.

    The DAA image (Direct Access Archive) in fact is just a compressed CD/DVD ISO which can be created through the commercial program PowerISO and used.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The latest version (0.1.7) is from September 2009.

    DAA2ISO VS UltraISO

     
  11. DMGExtractor icon
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    DMGExtractor is a lightweight Java application for extracting the contents of a Mac OS X Disk Image file (extension .dmg) to raw binary format (such as an ISO file). It can handle most disk images of type CUDIFDiskImage, with the exception of UDCO images (using a compression...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The program is no longer developed. Last version, 0.70, released in November 2008, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    DMGExtractor VS UltraISO

     
  12. 7Burn icon
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    7Burn Free Burning Software (SevenBurn) is designed to work properly under Windows 7 operating system through IMAPIv2 that enables to use any support for writing discs including Blu-Ray.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • PL flagPoland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    last official update: 2014

    7Burn Features

    1.  Portable

    7Burn VS UltraISO

     
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