Write operating system ISO images to USB drives, no root required
F-Droid repository metadata
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
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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
How to install
Download the APK from the button at the top of this page.
Allow “Install unknown apps” for your browser or file manager only, not for every app.
Open the downloaded file and confirm the installation.
If installation fails with “App not installed,” remove an earlier build of the same app first. A signature conflict is the usual cause.
Data safety
Every file is checked against its published SHA-256 before it is listed.
Files are scanned for malware on every update.
The permissions each app requests are listed on its own page.
Read the full safety policy for how we test, flag, and delist files.
Frequently asked questions
What is EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer?
Write operating system ISO images to USB drives, no root required
Who develops EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer?
EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer is developed by Davide Depau.
Which Android version does EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer require?
EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer requires Android API 23 or later.
What is the current version of EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer?
The synchronized F-Droid version is 2.1.
Which license does EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer use?
The signed F-Droid metadata lists GPL-3.0-only.
Where is the source code for EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer?
