# Private and open-source alternatives to Media Creation Tool

Also covers Windows Media Creation Tool.

1. [CrystalFetch](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/crystalfetch/): B (80/100). A macOS app from the makers of UTM that builds Windows 11 installer ISO images from Microsoft's update files, using UUP dump APIs and converter scripts.
2. [Impression](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/impression/): B (80/100). A GNOME app for writing disk images to USB drives, which can also download popular Linux distribution images directly.
3. [Mist](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/mist/): B (80/100). A macOS utility that lists and downloads macOS installers and Apple silicon firmware files from Apple's servers, and can build app bundles, disk images, bootable ISOs and installer packages.
4. [Quickemu](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/quickemu/): B (80/100). Command-line tools that download Windows, macOS and Linux images (quickget) and create and run QEMU virtual machines with preset configurations (quickemu).
5. [WoeUSB](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/woeusb/): B (80/100). A Linux command-line tool that creates bootable Windows installation USB drives from an ISO file or DVD, with legacy BIOS and UEFI support.
6. [Fedora Media Writer](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/fedora-media-writer/): C (65/100). The Fedora Project's tool for downloading Fedora images and writing them, or other ISO files, to USB drives, with a restore option to reformat the drive afterwards.
7. [Raspberry Pi Imager](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/raspberry-pi-imager/): C (65/100). Raspberry Pi's official tool for downloading operating system images and writing them to SD cards and USB drives, with options to preconfigure hostname, Wi-Fi, users and SSH.
8. [UUP dump](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/uup-dump/): C (65/100). A website and set of scripts that fetch Windows update files (UUP) from Microsoft's servers and convert them into Windows installation ISO images.
9. [balenaEtcher](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/balenaetcher/): D (40/100). A cross-platform app from balena that writes OS images to SD cards and USB drives and validates the written data.
10. [Rufus](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/rufus/): F (30/100). A Windows utility that formats USB drives and writes bootable USB media from ISO and disk images, and can download Windows ISOs.
11. [Ventoy](https://privacyratings.com/os-installers/ventoy/): F (30/100). A tool that prepares a USB drive so ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD and EFI files copied onto it can be booted from a menu, without reformatting the drive for each image.

Source: https://privacyratings.com/alternatives/media-creation-tool/