Universal USB Installer Alternatives

Apps similar to Universal USB Installer include Rufus, which is free and open source. Other options are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT. You're spoiled for choice with Bootable USB Creators like Universal USB Installer: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.

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  1. UUByte ISO Editor is a full ISO toolkit for burning, creation, extracting and editing. Powered by a simple user interface, it is quite easy to make a bootable USB or DVD in a few clicks.

    29 UUByte ISO Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. Utility QemuBootTester, at the base QEMU, from Ameda Buddha, with support for x86 / x64 UEFI mode. All possibilities, in general, are visible on the screen.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. 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.

    13 Startup Disk Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
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  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Piw is a software to create bootable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin or Rufus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Pardus
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  6. 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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  7. Caligula icon
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    A user-friendly, lightweight TUI wrapper for the dd command written in Rust that performs easy disk imaging and ISO burning with only a single command with graphs and rich confirmation dialogs.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
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  8. USBWriter icon
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    USBWriter 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. IWantLinux icon
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    IWantLinux is a simple, beginner-friendly tool for Windows that helps you get started with Linux. Choose a distro from a curated list, and IWantLinux will download it and write it to a USB drive — ready to boot.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • GNOME MultiWriter can be used to write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once. Supported drive sizes are between 1Gb and 32Gb.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    NIMMI, Nehul's ISO MultiBoot Manager and Installer, is an ISO installer-manager for Pen-Drive,USB Hard-Drive.It is very easy to use.And also is has been published under GNU license.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. DriveForge is a free, open-source Windows tool that puts the disk jobs people normally need four separate programs for into a single portable executable. There is no installer: one file, about 80 MB, nothing written to Program Files, and nothing to uninstall.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
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