EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer

Davide Depau

About this app

EtchDroid is an open-source application that helps you write images to USB drives.
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

Ratings and reviews

While sitting on a lazy boy I was able to successfully write a Linux distro onto a USB-C thumb drive that I will later install onto a desktop... It was fun and effortless and I swear it was faster than doing it on a PC, as a matter of fact it was nearly a 3 GB operating system that was done in mere seconds!!! great app, especially when you don't have a computer nearby that is capable of writing an image...!!! Super convenient!!!

I have great success with this app over the years and it just keeps getting better. At this point it has been a long, long time since I've had any issues with it. Besides, any previous issues were mainly due to using inferior devices. It is bar-none, the standard for disc writing using a phone. Great work devs!

I always seem to run into problems when trying new apps. I don't know if it's just user error or most apps just don't easily do what they promise. This app almost runs itself, the most straightforward user interface I've encountered and as someone who doesn't know much about tech I really appreciated it's simplicity. Will definitely be my go to for writting anything to USB.

What’s new

Quality-of-life release with bug fixes and new translations.

• 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