EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer
• Improved reliability: fixed several crashes while writing to USB drives
• Very large USB drives that can't be written now show a clear error message
• Fixed a crash when opening images on some Android 13 devices
• Telemetry is now correctly disabled on microG-based ROMs
• Added new translations: Finnish, Galician, Burmese, Sardinian, Slovak and Ukrainian
Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.
⭐️ Supported devices ⭐️
✅ USB flash drives
✅ USB SD card adapters
❌ USB hard drives / SSDs
❌ USB docks and hubs
❌ Internal SD card slot
❌ Optical or floppy disk drives
❌ Thunderbolt-only devices
⭐️ Supported disk image types ⭐️
✅ Modern GNU/Linux operating system images, including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, pop!_OS, Linux Mint, FreeBSD, BlissOS and many more
✅ Raspberry PI SD card images (but you must unzip them first!)
❌ Official Microsoft Windows ISOs
⚠️ Community-built Windows images, made for EtchDroid (be careful: they may contain viruses!)
❌ Apple DMG disk images
❌ Older GNU/Linux OS images < 2010 such as Damn Small Linux
Source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid
- Author: Davide Depau
- License: GNU General Public License v3.0 only
- Website
- Issue Tracker
- Translation
- Source Code
- Changelog
- Build Metadata
- Reproducibility Status
Donate
Versions
Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
Download F-Droid-
arm64-v8aarmeabi-v7ax86x86_64This version requires Android 6.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Download APK 4.5 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
-
arm64-v8aarmeabi-v7ax86x86_64This version requires Android 5.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Download APK 4.8 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
-
arm64-v8aarmeabi-v7ax86x86_64This version requires Android 5.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Download APK 4.7 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
• New Material You UI, much more intuitive and easier to use!
• EtchDroid will now recover from most write failures and ask you to unplug and reconnect your USB drive
• After writing the image, it will also be verified to ensure it didn't get corrupted
• The DMG functionality has been removed; use an older version if you still need it
• New Material You UI, much more intuitive and easier to use!
• EtchDroid will now recover from most write failures and ask you to unplug and reconnect your USB drive
• After writing the image, it will also be verified to ensure it didn't get corrupted
• The DMG functionality has been removed; use an older version if you still need it