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    balena-io/etcher

    Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

    mobile
    cross-platform
    etcher
    sd-cards
    usb-drives
    TypeScript
    Apache-2.0
    34.7K stars
    2.4K forks
    440 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 10, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 19 days ago, with 86 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives safely and easily using a cross-platform application built with web technologies.
    • Ensures data integrity by verifying every byte written and protects users from accidentally overwriting hard drives.
    • Use for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices supporting USB device boot mode.
    • Use for flashing OS images on multiple operating systems including Linux, Windows, and macOS with consistent user experience.
    • Use for developers and hobbyists needing a reliable, user-friendly tool to prepare installation media for embedded systems or computers.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

    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.

    Excerpt from the balena-io/etcher README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    2.4K+37

    Open issues

    703+19

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