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balenaEtcher vs Tailor: catalog facts
balenaEtcher	Tailor
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. Balena sells separate commercial device…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
Hides system drives, so the classic wrong-disk accident is much harder Verifies the write by reading the media back	Native GTK and libadwaita interface Uses libosinfo operating system data
An Electron app doing a job a 200 KB tool could do No persistent storage or multi-boot; one image per stick	Marked as in development by its author Little documentation on the project page
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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