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.

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• Linux (most distros)
• macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) and later
• Microsoft Windows 7 and later

Note: Etcher will run on any platform officially supported by Electron. Read more in their documentation.

Refer to the downloads page for the latest pre-made installers for all supported operating systems.

Package repository hosting is graciously provided by Cloudsmith. Cloudsmith is the only fully hosted, cloud-native, universal package management solution, that enables your organization to create, store and share packages in any format, to any place, with total confidence.

Detailed or alternative steps in the instructions by Cloudsmith

1. Add Etcher Debian repository:

   curl -1sLf \
      'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/balena/etcher/setup.deb.sh' \
      | sudo -E bash

2. Update and install:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install balena-etcher-electron

sudo apt-get remove balena-etcher-electron
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
apt-get clean
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
apt-get update

Detailed or alternative steps in the instructions by Cloudsmith

1. Add Etcher rpm repository:

   curl -1sLf \
      'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/balena/etcher/setup.rpm.sh' \
      | sudo -E bash

2. Update and install:

   sudo dnf install -y balena-etcher-electron

rm /etc/yum.repos.d/balena-etcher.repo
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/balena-etcher-source.repo

1. Add Etcher rpm repository:

   curl -1sLf \
      'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/balena/etcher/setup.rpm.sh' \
      | sudo -E bash

2. Update and install:

   sudo yum install -y balena-etcher-electron

sudo yum remove -y balena-etcher-electron
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/balena-etcher.repo
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/balena-etcher-source.repo

1. Add the repo

   curl -1sLf \
   'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/balena/etcher/setup.rpm.sh' \
   | sudo -E bash

2. Update and install

   sudo zypper up
   sudo zypper install balena-etcher-electron

sudo zypper rm balena-etcher-electron
# remove the repo
sudo zypper rr balena-etcher
sudo zypper rr balena-etcher-source

sudo eopkg it etcher

sudo eopkg rm etcher

Etcher is offered through the Arch User Repository and can be installed on both Manjaro and Arch systems. You can compile it from the source code in this repository using balena-etcher. The following example uses a common AUR helper to install the latest release:

yay -S balena-etcher

yay -R balena-etcher

This package is maintained by @majkinetor, and is kept up to date automatically.

choco install etcher

choco uninstall etcher

If you're having any problem, please raise an issue on GitHub, and the balena.io team will be happy to help.

Etcher is free software and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the license.