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

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.

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??

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