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EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer

Write operating system ISO images to USB drives, no root required

Davide Depau · eu.depau.etchdroid

5.0 (2 ratings) 1M+ downloads v2.1 4.5 MB Android 6.0+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

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At a glance

Latest version
v2.1 (26)
Updated
Jul 18, 2026 (3 months ago)
APK size
4.5 MB
Requires
Android 6.0+ (API 23)
CPU support
x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM 32-bit, ARM 64-bit
Category
Tools (app)
Permissions
6
Website
etchdroid.depau.eu
Developer contact
[email protected]

About this APK

EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer is an app by Davide Depau in the Tools category. It includes native code for x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM 32-bit and ARM 64-bit, so it runs on practically every phone.

Since version 2.0, the minimum Android version rose from 5.0 to 6.0. It asks for 6 permissions, none of them sensitive.

What's new in v2.1

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

Description

From the listing uploaded by “actolov”.

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

Version history

2 versions are listed, going back to v2.0. Since v2.1 it requires Android 6.0+.

v2.1 LATEST Jul 18, 2026 4.5 MB WARNING v2.0 Apr 24, 2025 4.8 MB WARNING

All 2 versions

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Warning

Signing certificate

  • Certificate issued to “fdroid.org” Not the developer's name (“Davide Depau”). Names in certificates can't be verified, so this alone proves nothing.

Store checks and file details

  • Developer signature check failed Jul 18, 2026
  • Signed byCN=FDroid, OU=FDroid, O=fdroid.org, L=ORG, ST=ORG, C=UK
  • Signing certificate (SHA-1)B4:8D:37:EA:71:F3:D8:D6:03:38:44:D7:17:BE:F0:D7:02:EC:70:B3
  • File MD5b43eaf9dc15505f04cbf90c925707aa1
  • Uploaded by “actolov” 2 followers · uploading since 2023

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Permissions (6)

EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer requests 6 permissions, none of them sensitive.

Required hardware & features

EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer APK: questions and answers

Can I install this APK over the version I already have?

Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.

Is the EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer APK safe?

No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store flagged this file with a security warning. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is b43eaf9dc15505f04cbf90c925707aa1.

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