Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Windows
Germany
EU


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Prepare bootable USB drives for Windows on macOS with support for UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes. Patches Windows 11 to bypass TPM and Secure Boot requirements, requires just an image file and USB. Offers a quick, user-friendly process for PCs and Intel Macs.



Restore/Backup Utility, initially intended for Raspberry Pi users, but very suitable for all SD cards and external disks. More compression formats, no more sudo passwords, enable SSH, Auto Eject, restore to multiple disks, size check, shrink, etc.




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WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501 s WinUSB.


Flexible and configurable USB drive multiboot solution which also supports UEFI booting.


WinSetupFromUSB is a Windows program, which prepares multiboot USB flash or fixed disk to install any Windows versions since 2000/XP, boot various Linux and *BSD flavors, as well as many Windows, Linux, DOS based and other utilities. Since version 1.


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.

Write an ISO or other image to multiple USB devices all at once. Easily preparing a bunch of flash drives of your favorite OS with just a couple of clicks.




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...


WinToUSB is a free software that allows you to install and run Windows operating system on a USB hard drive or USB flash drive, using an ISO image or CD/DVD drive as the source of installation. WinToUSB also support creating bootable WinPE USB drive, it can help you to transfer...




Create Windows USB on a Mac MeowUSB simplifies the process of creating a bootable Windows USB on your Mac.