Welcome to USBImager!

USBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups. Available platforms: Windows, MacOS and Linux. Its interface is as simple as it gets, totally bloat-free.

The download link leads to a binary for your OS with the simplified (write-only) interface. For the standard interface and other platforms, check out the repository.

The application is Open Source and free as in free beer! Licensed under MIT license.


Installation

  1. download one of the usbimager_*.zip archives from the repo for your desktop (less than 192 Kilobytes each)
  2. extract to: C:\Program Files (Windows), /Applications (MacOS) or /usr (Linux)
  3. Enjoy!
You can use the executable in the archive as-is, the other files only provide integration with your desktop (icons and such). It will autodetect your operating system's configured language, and if dictionary found, it will greet you in your language.

Usage

  1. On the first line, select the downloaded OS image file you want to flash
  2. On the second line, select the device to flash to
  3. Click on "Write"

Screenshots


Features

  • Open Source and MIT licensed
  • Portable executable, no installation needed, just extract the archives
  • Small. Really small, few kilobytes only, yet has no dependencies
  • No privacy concerns nor advertisements like with etch*r, fully GDPR compatible
  • Minimalist, multilingual, native interface on all platforms
  • Tries to be bullet-proof and avoids overwriting of the system disk
  • Makes synchronized writes, that is, all data is on disk when the progressbar reaches 100%
  • Can verify writing by comparing the disk to the image
  • Can read raw disk images: .img, .bin, .raw, .iso, .dd, etc.
  • Can read compressed images on-the-fly: .gz, .bz2, .xz, .zst
  • Can read archives on-the-fly: .zip (PKZIP and ZIP64), .zzz (ZZZip), .tar, .cpio, .pax *
  • Can create backups in raw and ZStandard compressed format
  • Can send images to microcontrollers over serial line
  • Available in 18 languages
* - for archives with multiple files, the first file in the archive is used as input