Rufus is a standalone app designed to format and create a bootable USB drive for a large variety of ISOs. The app is just over 1MB in size and is notably faster than similar competitor apps such as the Windows 7 USB utility, Universal USB Installer, and UNetbootin.

Rufus can come in handy when you need to simply format a USB drive, install an OS on a machine that lacks a CD/DVD-ROM drive, or when you need to boot an operating system temporarily without intentions of actually installing the media. This can be immensely useful while you're on the go or just need access to an OS for a temporary, isolated reason. The app can even be used to flash firmware to BIOS or other destinations by just using DOS.

Even though Rufus is a tiny utility in comparison to other USB creation tools that can be rather bulky in size, it contends easily with the competition and creates bootable USB drives in record time!

Features

  • Bootable USB Drive (USB keys, pendrive, memory stick, etc)
  • USB instillation media from bootable ISOs
  • flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
  • low-level utility

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Rufus

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Categories

System, Operating Systems, Bootable USB

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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  • xx-akshaj-xx Posted 2026-08-27
    5 out of 5 stars
    I have been using this product for over an year, absolutely love it. I never had a SINGLE problem with Rufus
  • kosta85 Posted 2026-04-11
    5 out of 5 stars
    The best and simple image recording software!
  • piranha Posted 2025-11-26
    5 out of 5 stars
    tyvm best app
  • sabbir Posted 2024-06-01
    5 out of 5 stars
    Amazing!!! Been using it for a long time... 5 stars!!!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • atreidesz Posted 2024-03-13
    5 out of 5 stars
    Perfect
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Languages

Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop, Security Professionals, System Administrators

Registered

2019-08-23
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