Tools · Open source
EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer
Davide Depau
Write operating system ISO images to USB drives, no root required
Opens the official F-Droid page
About EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer
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
What's new in 2.1
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 EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer
- Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
- Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
- If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
- Open EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer from your app drawer.





