Write operating system ISO images to USB drives, no root required
About this app
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
Licensed under GPL-3.0-only, by Davide Depau.
What's New in v2.1
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 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
Version history
Jul 14, 2026 · 4.5 MB · Android API 23–36 · code 26
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 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
SHA-256 c54670f2c81bd2b8ec753a8de32dd18aa9a3406f6e9f6e93d00f72b81cb70669
Apr 13, 2025 · 4.8 MB · Android API 21–35 · code 25
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Major rewrite of EtchDroid!
- • New Material You UI, much more intuitive and easier to use!
- • EtchDroid will now recover from most write failures and ask you to unplug and reconnect your USB drive
- • After writing the image, it will also be verified to ensure it didn't get corrupted
- • The DMG functionality has been removed; use an older version if you still need it
SHA-256 4a9a2eba1c0c8d477b49cab3e65e206889e94f1fae34deaf5507d0e4f4cd47a4
Oct 13, 2024 · 4.7 MB · Android API 21–35 · code 23
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Major rewrite of EtchDroid!
- • New Material You UI, much more intuitive and easier to use!
- • EtchDroid will now recover from most write failures and ask you to unplug and reconnect your USB drive
- • After writing the image, it will also be verified to ensure it didn't get corrupted
- • The DMG functionality has been removed; use an older version if you still need it
SHA-256 0b7a365d8254e2d1ee0e995acba390f456bb0640087df43e690b90866e8630ba
Will it run on your device?
92%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
How to install this safely
How to verify the file you downloaded
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What the signing certificate proves
Every Android app is signed with a private key that only its developer holds. The fingerprint on this page is a hash of the matching public certificate, and it proves continuity rather than identity: it tells you a build came from whoever signed the earlier ones. Android enforces this at install time — if a package claiming to be eu.depau.etchdroid is signed with a different key, the system will refuse to install it over your existing copy. A fingerprint that changes between releases is worth pausing on, because a repackaged app that has been modified by someone else cannot keep the original signature.
How to roll back to an earlier version
If the current release misbehaves, 2.0 is the last build before it. Android will not install an older version code over a newer one, so you must uninstall EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer first — which clears its local data unless you have a backup. Reinstall the older APK only if its signing fingerprint matches the build you already trust, and check the API range: an older release may target an Android version your device has moved past.
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SHA-256 Hash
c54670f2c81bd2b8ec753a8de32dd18aa9a3406f6e9f6e93d00f72b81cb70669
Signing certificate
bbb3c58855980054df315bf51c045ff2b501c58706511459fc345327dfbf3ece
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