Balena Etcher

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; Intel 64-bit.
  • Windows 10 and later; Intel 64-bit.
  • MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and later; both Intel and Apple Silicon

Technical Details