14 Rufus alternatives for Linux, Mac, and windows

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Rufus

As you now know, there are a lot of Rufus alternatives out there. Some may work as well as Rufus. Others may break or even fail to create a bootable USB drive. Some applications also provide features that Rufus does not have. Omit, your choice of application should depend on what you are trying to achieve. All the boot tools listed above are free with paid editions in some. The choice comes down to which operating system you want to make the bootable drive for.

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Balena Etcher

Now, Balena has a host of other solutions. This includes cloud, balenaOS, balena Engine, and even their flashing hardware called balenaEtcherPro. Balena Etcher is perfect for creating ready-to-go bootable drives. But, It does not provide options for persistence. They still support a wide range of iso images including Windows iso.

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UNetbootin

UNetBootin is another cross-platform alternative to Rufus. It has the option to choose between downloading the latest iso images or choosing your iso file. UNetBootin has a list of supported Linux distributions available on their website.

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Universal USB Installer

Universal USB Installer is a simple tool to put Operating System on a USB drive. It allows setting persistence storage for storing user files even after reboot. It can format fat32 flash drives for a clean installation.

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Media Creation Tool

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DiskMaker X

DiskMaker X is an application built to create a bootable drive of the macOS operating system. DiskMaker X scans and finds the OS X Install program and lets the user start the build process for the image.

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Win32 Disk Imager

Win32 Disk Imager is a popular tool targeted at the Windows platform. Version 0.9 of the tool can also flash older legacy systems such as Windows XP and Vista.

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Raspberry Pi Imager

This is the official imager application developed by the Raspberry Pi foundation. Raspberry Pi foundation is well known for its tiny card-sized Single Board Computers. The foundation has released this app on all three Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms. Raspberry Pi Imager supports installing Raspberry PI OS. This OS on SD cards acts as a bootable drive to plug into their raspberry pi hardware. Raspberry Pi OS is Linux operating system built for their product.

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Deepin Boot Maker

For users looking to install Deepin, the dev team came up with their utility for flashing USB drives. Deepin Boot Maker is available for all three platforms. It supports installing Deepin OS versions only. You do need to download the Deepin iso first before using this application. Along with this utility, the dev team has worked on other tools such as installer, store, driver manager, and so on. All these tools are verified and shipped within the Deepin ecosystem.

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dd

Perhaps the most powerful tool on this list, dd is a command-line tool for Linux or Mac users. Also known humorously as the short form of “disk destroyer”, dd lets you copy the image of one disk onto the other. Dd works by specifying the input and output drive locations.

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YUMI

YUMI is also known as the successor to the Universal USB Installer. Your Universal Multiboot Installer (YUMI) is a multi-system bootable USB drive creator. It has various usage including boot tools.

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Ventoy

Ventoy is available for both Windows and Linux. With Ventoy, it provides the option to copy the files over to the USB drive. This is much better than, say, formatting the disk each time you need a new operating system as bootable.

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FlashBoot

Available for Windows, Flashboot is a lightweight and low-resource option comparable with Rufus. It is compatible with all versions of Windows from Windows XP through Windows 10. Flashboot can create a bootable version of the above Windows system.

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MultiBootUSB.org

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Easy2Boot

As per their website, Easy2Boot or E2B has had over a million downloads. It supports three menu systems for an easy bootable process

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