List of ISO image software

The following is a list of software programs that can read and/or write ISO image files, broken down by platform support. See the ISO image article for more information on the .iso file format.

Cross-platform

• 7-Zip - An open source file archiver that can read, but not write, ISO images.

Linux

• dd - A built-in Linux/UNIX command for performing low-level file copies and conversions, and generating ISO images from CDs.
• File Roller - A Unix frontend for extracting ISO files.
• ISO Master - An open source program to create and edit ISO images in Linux.
• mkisofs - this utility, part of the cdrtools package, can create ISO images from the file system. Example: mkisofs -J -o filename.iso directory name. Using -J preserves the Microsoft Joliet extensions, meaning the data in the directory should be readable on non-Linux/UNIX systems.
• mount - ISO files can be mounted directly in Linux with the single command: mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso (assuming the directory /mnt/iso exists).
• PowerISO (for Linux) - This is a free utility for linux which can extract, list, and convert image files (including ISO, BIN, DAA, and other formats).

Mac OS X

• Disk Utility - Mac OS X's built-in general disk utility, it can create and mount disk images.
• DiskImageMounter - A built-in utility for mounting several types of disk image files.
• Disco - A commercial Mac OS X mastering program which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, disc duplication, burning VIDEO_TS folders, disc spanning as well as a searchable disc index.
• DVD Imager - free utility to create ISO image from VIDEO_TS folders.
• hdiutil - Mac OS X's built-in command-line tool to manipulate disk images (create, attach, verify, convert, burn, etc).
• Roxio Toast - A commercial CD mastering program that can mount many types of disk images, including both sides of a HFS/ISO9660 hybrid image.

Microsoft Windows

• Alcohol 120% - A commercial CD/DVD burner and image mounting program that can also create ISO files from discs.
• Alcohol 52% FE - A feature-limited free edition of Alcohol 120%. Cannot burn discs.
• BURNCDCC - A freeware utility used to burn ISO images to a CD/DVD/BD disc.
• cdburn.exe - a command-line utility from Microsoft for burning ISO images to CDs. Included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools package.
• CloneDVD - From SlySoft, shareware DVD cloning software which is able to save the contents of the disc as an ISO image or as individual DVD files (i.e. in a VIDEO_TS directory). CloneDVD can also write a DVD from an ISO image and from a directory of individual DVD files, and it can process a folder of DVD files and convert it into an ISO image.
• Daemon Tools - An ad-supported utility to mount ISO images in Windows operating systems.
• dvdburn.exe - a command-line utility from Microsoft for burning ISO images to DVDs. Also included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools package.
• DVD Shrink - A freeware program that facilitates backing up DVD movies. The resulting output is an ISO file or a DVD VIDEO_TS folder, and it has to option to decrease the size of the output at a lesser quality (for copying onto a smaller sized medium).
• Folder2Iso - A freeware program to create an ISO image file from any kind of folder, including subfolders. It is a graphical interface for the Linux program mkisofs. The program does not require installation. Compatible with Windows Vista.
• ImgBurn - a freeware disc image recorder that can build and write ISO image files.
• InfraRecorder - A GPL-licensed free software utility for writing CD and DVD image files to disc.
• IsoBuster - A shareware program that can extract ISOs, plus full CD descriptions in various modes, and handle and extract ISO and related files.
• ISO Recorder - A free (for personal use) ISO creation and writing tool for Windows XP and later. (Note that ISO Recorder does not support creating images of Audio or Video CDs).
• LC ISO Creator - A free and tiny (23kB) CD/DVD ISO image creation tool for Windows NT/2000/XP.
• IZArc - A freeware closed-source file archiver for Microsoft Windows that can extract files from several disk image formats, including ISO files.
• MagicDISC - A free disc image emulator.
• MagicISO - A shareware utility from MagicISO, Inc., for working with ISO image files.
• Nero Burning ROM
• Power Archiver - A shareware file archiver that can handle ISO images.
• PowerISO - A shareware program which can mount, edit and extract many disk image formats.
• UltraISO - A shareware application for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files.
• Undisker - A shareware program that can create and edit several types of hard disk and CD/DVD image file formats, including ISO images.
• Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel - A free tool from Microsoft to mount ISO images as drives.
• Virtual CloneDrive - A freeware CD emulator from SlySoft.
• WinRAR - A shareware file archiver that can read, but not write, ISO images.

Sun Solaris

• lofiadm - Solaris command to manage files as block devices. Use to create a loopback device for an ISO image file suitable for mounting with lofiadm -a /path/to/iso /dev/lofi/X. Mount the loopback device as a randomly accessible file system with mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/X /mnt/point. Alternatively, use this combined format: mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /path/to/iso` /mnt/point.