balenaEtcher For Mac

balenaEtcher offers you the possibility to burn OS images to any SD card with ease, without making you deal with complicated procedures. The utility integrates a user-friendly disk selection tool, and can verify the card before starting to burn the data,

The balenaEtcher open source application relies on a single window where the user gets to specify the OS image that wishes to be burned. The utility is able to work with OS images that are using the .img, .iso, and .zip formats.

The next step is to specify the SD card on which you want to burn the OS image. For your convenience, balenaEtcher can automatically detect external drives and allows you to select the one you want to use from a drop-down menu.

At the same time, the list will not include your internal drive, so there is no possibility to wipe your entire disk.

Lastly, you must press the Burn button and monitor the progress in the balenaEtcher main window. balenaEtcher lets’s you know how much of the task has completed, expressed in percents, and the current transfer speed.

When the process is over, the SD card is mounted again, and you will be able to make use of the burned OS image. balenaEtcher also offers you the possibility to burn the same OS image on a new card, or you can load a new OS image.

Note that balenaEtcher comes with very few customization options, yet in the app’s Options panel you can choose to toggle the error reporting function or the auto-unmounting on success.

To sum it all up, balenaEtcher offers you the possibility to burn OS images on SD cards with ease, without making you deal with a complicated procedure. In fact, the utility comes with a straightforward design that integrates very well with the macOS look and feel.