EtchDroid

EtchDroid is an open-source application that writes disk images to USB drives.

Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.

No root required, no ads, no tracking, no nonsense.

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It saved me many times. Thank you for making this.

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“In the times of greater need it did the good deeds”

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FOSS, 0$, does exactly what is says on the tin. What more do you want?

Supported devices

check USB flash drives
check USB SD card adapters
help_center USB hard drives / SSDs (some might work)
help_center USB docks and hubs (they might have power issues)
close Internal SD card slot
close Optical or floppy disk drives
close Thunderbolt-only devices

Supported disk image types

check Modern GNU/Linux operating system images, including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, pop!_OS, Linux Mint, FreeBSD, BlissOS and many more
check Raspberry PI SD card images (but you must unzip them first!)
close Apple DMG disk images
close Official Microsoft Windows ISOs from microsoft.com
help_center Community-built Windows images, made for EtchDroid (be careful: they may contain viruses!)
help_center Older GNU/Linux OS images < 2010 such as Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux

Support the project

Writing and testing this app takes an incredible amount of time and effort. If EtchDroid saved your day, please consider donating.

Become a patron on Patreon
Become a sponsor on GitHub Sponsors
More options in the donations page

Contributing to EtchDroid

A good way to contribute to the project is to translate it to your language. A full translation from scratch shouldn’t take you more than 30 minutes.

If you’re a UI/UX designer and you have some ideas on how to improve the app’s look and feel, let me know in the discussions section.

Free software

EtchDroid is free open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3. The source code is available on GitHub.

Feel free to distribute builds of the app or bundle it in your custom ROM, as long as you don’t modify it or you make the source code available.

If you have special licensing needs (e.g. you want to distribute a rebranded version of EtchDroid or use the code in a proprietary product), you can reach out to me at hello@etchdroid.app.