Rufus
Utility for formatting USB drives and creating bootable USB media from ISO images
Free · Open sourceLatest versionWindows
About Rufus
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. It has a small footprint, needs no installation and is portable.
It helps anyone who needs installation media for Windows, Linux and other systems, or who wants to format USB, flash card and virtual drives. It is 100% free software under the GPL v3 license, and it shows extensive information about what it is doing through an easily accessible log.
Highlights
- Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT32, NTFS, UDF, exFAT, ReFS, ext2 and ext3
- Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives from ISO and disk images, including Windows and Linux
- Create bootable FreeDOS or MS-DOS drives, and Windows To Go drives
- Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image
- Bad block checks, including detection of fake flash drives
- Interface natively available in 38 languages
Description adapted from the project README.
- Version
- 4.15
- Updated
- Jun 30, 2026
- Size
- 1.9 MB
- License
- GNU GPL 3.0
Open source details
- Source code
- Exact source for v4.15
- Released
- Jun 30, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 38K
- Website
- rufus.ie
Community project. Help and bug reports go to the maintainers on GitHub; AppsXi does not provide support for this app.
License
CopyleftGNU GPL 3.0
Use and change it freely; anything built from it must be shared under the same license, with its source.
Read the full licenseHow this app was checked
AppsXi checks every version before it is listed.
Signed by Akeo Consulting
Certificate from Sectigo Public Code Signing CA EV R36,O=Sectigo Limited,C=GB
Signature is timestamped
File matches the hash GitHub published
SHA-256 84c8a437f8af89257524478489e5c85f1edf25f761d299e2bcde46ac0afbe106
No malware found
ClamAV 1.5.4 on Oct 13, 2026
Install and behavior test in a virtual machine: not run yet
Coming soon for all listings.
Versions
4.15checked
Checked Oct 13, 2026 · Windows
EXE · 1.9 MB
Questions about Rufus
Is Rufus free?
Yes. Rufus is free and open source under the GNU GPL 3.0. AppsXi lists the maintainers' official release and does not charge for it.
Is Rufus safe to download?
AppsXi downloads every version of Rufus from the maintainers' official GitHub release and checks it before it is listed. For version 4.15 (checked Oct 13, 2026), the Windows download is Authenticode signed, each file matches the checksum GitHub publishes for the release, byte for byte and a malware scan found nothing.
Who makes Rufus?
Rufus is an open source project by Pete Batard on GitHub (pbatard/rufus). Help and bug reports go to its maintainers there.
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