balenaEtcher » Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives.

balenaEtcher (commonly referred to and formerly known as Etcher) is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso and .img files, as well as zipped folders onto storage media to create live SD cards and USB flash drives. It is developed by balena, and licensed under Apache License 2.0. Etcher was developed using the Electron framework and supports Windows, macOS and Linux. balenaEtcher was originally called Etcher, but its name was changed on October 29, 2018, when Resin.io changed its name to Balena.

Etcher is primarily used through a graphical user interface. Additionally, there is a command line interface available which is under active development.

Future planned features include support for persistent storage allowing live SD card or USB flash drive to be used as a hard drive, as well as support for flashing multiple boot partitions to a single SD card or USB flash drive.

Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly, and much more. It can also directly flash Raspberry Pi devices that support USB device boot mode.

Supported Operating Systems

✔ Linux (most distros).

✔ macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) and later.

✔ Microsoft Windows 7 and later.

balenaEtcher » A cross-platform tool to flash OS images onto SD cards and USB drives safely and easily. Free and open source for makers around the world.