Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Rufus
Easily Format and Create Bootable USB Flash Drives.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rufus launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images - podman-desktop/extension-bootc
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MultiDrive▲467Hey HN! I'm the CTO at Atola Technology, and we have launched MultiDrive: a free disk backup/clone/wipe tool that does things differently. After 17 years of work with drives, I got tired of seeing simple disk operations locked behind paywalls. Macrium killed their free version, EaseUS hides cloning in paid tiers, and so on and so forth. Another reason is that all the existing solutions are overly complicated. It must be simple enough for my mum to start erasing a USB stick or making a full drive backup. All in all, we thought the community deserved better. What makes MultiDrive…
Dec 2025 · multidrive.io · its alternatives →
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Daisy Disk 4.0▲366Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on your Mac
2015 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →
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Google Drive client for the commandline. Contribute to odeke-em/drive development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bobby▲201Backup all your Google Docs to your desktop in one click
2022 · bobby.app · its alternatives →
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A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀. Contribute to charmbracelet/gum development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Woop▲64A scriptable scratchpad, compatible with Boop for macOS
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Disk space visualization and management tool for Mac
2021 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →
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DuckDisk▲104Table-first storage analysis for Mac, cloud, and SSH
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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How often do you screw up the system so much you have to reformat the disk (without losing data) to fix it? Well, sometimes I do, and sometimes I can't be bothered to burn a live ISO onto a USB stick. There's initramfs, but it's hardly a pleasant environment, with network configuration and all. My go-to solution has typically been to create a chroot with busybox and a few utilities in /tmp, chroot into it, and then kill services that use the solid drive so that I can unmount it. That's an error-prone process, and sometimes systemd itself uses disk, so you can't unmount the drive despite…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Jump▲116Helps you navigate the file system by learning your habits.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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The FormatUsb tool is a reliable way to format flash drives
2021 · formatusb.com · its alternatives →
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