Pi SD Card Imager

- April 19, 2017

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Description

Prepare bootable SD cards for your Raspberry Pi direct on your phone - no storage needed.

- No PC required !
- Write Raspbian NOOBS & LibreELEC (KODI) SD cards without root (android 5.0+)
- Can write other OS if rooted
- Can use internal / external SD card or USB card reader
- Write while downloading - doesn't use up GBs of space of phone
- Safe - by default does not delete files on SD
- Read/backup SD card (this feature needs root)

Can automatically download, and install OS to SD/USB

More details:

- Download OS images direct in the app
- Write Raspbian NOOBS / KODI SD cards without root
- Write SD Card direct from custom .img file or zipped .img (root)
- Backup SD card direct to a compressed zip file (root)

No root required for:

-Writing NOOBS based OS to SD Cards (NOOBS / NOOBS Lite / PINN / BerryBoot /LibreLEC KODI )
-Downloading OS files

Root required for:

- Backing up SD card to a zipped .img file
- Writing custom OS .img to SD Cards

Recommended to use an OTG USB cable and a USB card reader.

Twitter: @mikered

Reviews

3.3

91 total

5 44

4 6

3 7

2 3

1 31

Ryan McWayne

Works great on rtd S4. Surprisingly quick too. Fun sampling OS's. Would be nice to upload other OS...maybe you already can?? Either way, Im satisfied.

Christina Phillips

Can't download ANY os or image to my SD card at all. Not NOOBS or Ubuntu or any other. What's going on? I thought I don't need root to write.

da A

Thanks works well saved me a lot of time with manual install of image files.

Miriam Rogers

Cant write to SD card..no permission?

Harshvardhan vaidya

Worked well..saved my day

damavox

Did not work. Has a Java.io pipe error

User reviews

Ryan McWayne May 18, 2017

Works great on rtd S4. Surprisingly quick too. Fun sampling OS's. Would be nice to upload other OS...maybe you already can?? Either way, Im satisfied.

Christina Phillips June 1, 2017

Can't download ANY os or image to my SD card at all. Not NOOBS or Ubuntu or any other. What's going on? I thought I don't need root to write.

Mike Redrobe June 8, 2017

You are using older android 4.4 - writing to sd was restricted on that version. Modern versions 5.0+ have a different permission system and can write to SD without root.

da A May 4, 2017

Thanks works well saved me a lot of time with manual install of image files.

Miriam Rogers May 28, 2017

Cant write to SD card..no permission?

Harshvardhan vaidya June 20, 2017

Worked well..saved my day

damavox April 15, 2017

Did not work. Has a Java.io pipe error

John Passero April 14, 2017

Used before recent update on rooted 4.4.2 device. I installed Noobs lite. Took sd card out, put into pi 3. Let it self install, then chose raspbian with pixel and libreELEC. Both installed flawlessly. Couldn't have asked for more.

David Laidlaw April 12, 2017

Unable to find Ubuntu Mate OS as your Read More shows page 2 Why ???

Mike Redrobe April 13, 2017

Latest version of the app can now install ubuntu without root.

Mike Stanford April 1, 2017

Usually works but as of late I've had trouble not being able to Img any cards. Says OK I do my usual routine of waiting a minute or so after its completed then unmount and insert into 1 of my many pi but for some reason the last 20 odd times I've tried with new and old cards it just corrupts them... I'm using a galaxy note 4 existing and freshly downloaded Img all give same result :-/

April 1, 2017

Great app! A couple button presses and you have a fully functional sdcard with os for a pi!

Martin Zink March 25, 2017

Thanks, it saved me the trouble finding a micro SD card adapter

Hideous Penguinboy March 20, 2017

Pretty intuitive. Just click, click, click, and my SD card is working on my Pi exactly as intended. This saved my bacon as I had no access to SD card readers!

wood land Nut March 16, 2017

Great app.now if only there was a way to update my offline pi with an android app. Aptonandroid or something

Robin Huston March 18, 2017

Wow very impressed!

Kosyne KT March 9, 2017

Seemed to work, said it flashed the image fine, but the Pi would not boot with it.

Mike A March 9, 2017

OK so how does this work if your sd is not fat formatted

Espen Mjøs March 7, 2017

Link for downloading full NOOBS broken

oscar figueroa March 8, 2017

Perfect for people that don't have personal computers. Got me started 😉

Brooky 118 March 1, 2017

Just what i needed

February 24, 2017

It sucks it crashes every time to write btw i am root i would rate it 0 stars

Mike Redrobe February 24, 2017

You're using older Android 4.4, which has limited functionality with SD cards compared to recent android phones 5.0 onwards. If rooted it should be still be able to use all features though.

santhu kumar February 4, 2017

Install only noobs lite. You can install other os after connecting to internet via pi

Marlon Truscott February 7, 2017

Brilliant app, got my pi running using my phone to write sd image.

Ayush kulshrestha January 29, 2017

Bakwas

Akshit Garg January 17, 2017

Nice work But update the distros daily...

Oinkers Bacon January 9, 2017

It Does What It Is Supposed To You can select from the images in the app or use your own. It can install an OS straight to any SD card I can connect to my phone. The app doesn't crash when you tell it to install. It "crashing" is actually it trying to tell you your SD card isnt big enough. (It doesn't crash, it pulls up your devices storage). Don't let idiots that don't know tech drive you away from this app. It works GREAT!

Helen Welburn January 13, 2017

Works ok all on phone I was able to get started straightaway without needing my Mac - clicked NOOBS lite and chose my SD card then write SD. Couldn't use read/backup function though as my phone isn't rooted

January 7, 2017

Just right for the job My PC has not a SD card reader. This app saved me the day

Joe December 31, 2016

Usefulness severely limited This couldnt find my usb OTG sdcard writer, so unfortunately that makes it no use to me (and I suspect most other potential users). Do suggest putting in the effort to support OTG. :) Reply to your reply: no I couldn't, and i think i know why. You are not using the inbui!t android file chooser, which provides the option to enable usb otg drives for the invoking app. See Asus File Manager for example of this flow. Switch your handrolled file chooser for the system one? I'm on android 6

Mike Redrobe February 9, 2017

This does now use android's file chooser on android 5.0 +

Corey Wolff December 27, 2016

Dumb. Just wanted to save and write my own image.

Mike Redrobe January 6, 2017

Latest version can now read/backup your SD card

Jake Poile December 23, 2016

Cannot flash my own pre-downloaded image

Mike Redrobe January 18, 2017

You can use any .img file in the current version - your phone does need to be rooted for non-NOOBS images

Ian Hurst October 1, 2016

Confusing ux To get another distribution you must choose noobs lite then it shows pinn or berryboot this is not intuitive. Also I couldn't write to otg only the internal SD card so I was not able to fully test it. It has no instructions at all no hints so no good for a noob. Such a shame as it could easily get 5 stars with a little more effort.

Mike Redrobe January 15, 2017

New version has more support for OTG and external cards

Goku Whittington August 6, 2016

Cool because it aloud you to set up your pi with out a computer or people who don't have a computer to set it up.

Jez Haslam August 13, 2016

OK but needs to be able to use Raspbian full and light or just select img from phone then can setup headless from phone/tablet

Mike Redrobe January 9, 2017

Version 1.03 can use full Raspbian .img - or your own custom .img (zipped) - requires root access.

Ricardo Medina December 17, 2016

It crashed When choosing Write to SD it crashed completely

Wirgus Wirgus July 8, 2016

useless cannot select own image

Mike Redrobe January 15, 2017

You can since version 1.03

T. V. November 14, 2016

WTF! Y u make this 2 difficult 2 use!!!

michael price December 16, 2016

Would rate higher Would be higher rated if it done more than just open and not shut down when you click write to SD

esmail mirmohammadi September 6, 2016

Avarin

Eli Robinson November 20, 2016

Terrible.... Add feature to select image I have downloaded and it would be five stars. As it is, the software is useless to power users.

Mike Redrobe February 5, 2017

App does support this - but you need root for custom .img files

Muhammad Shahzad June 2, 2016

A nice app I gave 5 star for this

What's New

Write NOOBS, Raspbian , LibreELEC (KODI) and Ubuntu sd cards without root

Write custom image to SD card (*)

Backup your SD card (*)

App includes built-in NOOBS Lite with no extra download needed.

Updated to new Raspbian release

Added BerryBoot & PINN - enhanced NOOBs

(*) Root Required for some actions

Additional information

Updated

April 19, 2017

Installs

5,000 - 10,000

Current Version

1.04

Requires Android

4.0.3 and up

Content Rating

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