UNetbootin Alternatives

UNetbootin has been discontinued. Similar apps include Rufus, which is free and open source. Other options are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, YUMI exFAT and Universal USB Installer. There's no shortage of Bootable USB Creators like UNetbootin, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.

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Most UNetbootin alternatives are Bootable USB Creators, but you can also narrow the list to Disk Imaging Tools or ISO Creators. Other popular filters are Mac and Linux.
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  1. WinUSB - simple, portable and lightweight tool, lets you create multiple Windows bootable USB flash drive using ISOs or DVDs. Formatting drive is not required when free space is enough. Boot with NTFS flash drive in UEFI system supported for most PC.

    56 WinUSB - multiboot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  2. SharpBoot icon
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    SharpBoot 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.

    37 SharpBoot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  3. TINU icon
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    The open tool to create bootable macOS installers.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  4. Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
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  5. TekDT USB Creator is an automatic Windows installation USB/Hard drive creation free software. Help you install Windows for your computer as quickly, simply and as easily as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6.  7 likes

    Tuxboot helps you to create a bootable Live USB drive for Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. It is modified from UNetbootin and runs on both MS Windows and GNU/Linux. You can choose to download the latest version of Clonezilla live, DRBL live, or GParted live...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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
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  8. Automatically make a live bootable usb with ease with AutoBootDisk, a open-source program

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  9. dd-Etcher icon
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    A minimal image flasher for macOS (and soon Linux). Think Balena Etcher, but without the telemetry, the bloat, or the bundled Chromium. It wraps the reliable dd(1) shell tool directly under the hood.

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    • Mac
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  10. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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