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Armbian project:

Armbian Imager is the official tool for downloading and flashing Armbian OS images to single-board computers. It focuses on safe and reliable flashing of Armbian images, with board-aware guidance and verification.

Key features

  • Support for 300+ boards with smart filtering and board-aware metadata
  • Disk safety checks, checksum validation, and post-write verification
  • Native cross-platform builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS (x64 and ARM64)
  • Multi-language UI with automatic system language detection
  • Automatic application updates
  • Small binary size and minimal runtime dependencies

Animation of Armbian Imager

Armbian Imager is implemented with Rust and TypeScript using Tauri. It’s not quite as slim as the Raspberry Pi Imager, but it’s still way better than the bloatware that is balenaEtcher—the more alternatives to that the better.