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

Did NOT expect this to work but it actually works beautifully! Was messing around with files I shouldn't have touched and essentially bricked my Surface GO 2 that was running kde neon. Had absolutely no way to make a new live USB because I lost SU privelages but I flashed an iso via this app and now I'm in the middle of doing a clean install. You're a lifesaver ❤️

WOW! After spending hours over several days trying to fix a dual boot issue I had and my only option to load an ISO to a usb stick was my Note 8... i was sure there was nothing available. Or if it was available it didn't work. TO MY SURPISE your app not only worked flawlessly to upload the ISO, but it really worked! my computer is fixed and I'm totally impressed! screw buying you a coffee, where do I deliver the keg??

it does NOT work. I tried multiple times with multiple iso's and to no avail. it doesn't show up in my bios after etching the image to the usb drive for some reason... please tell me what I'm doing wrong. my phone also tells me after the etching that the drive needs formatting and it doesn't show the actual size of the drive anymore just 0kb for no reason at all even though the app tells me that it was successful.

What’s new

Major rewrite of EtchDroid!

• 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