incisor

Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives, safely and easily.

A native desktop application built with Rust and GPUI, inspired by balenaEtcher.

Features

• Select source — pick a disk image from file or paste a URL
• Select target — choose one or more drives from the detected list
• Flash — write image to block device with real-time progress (speed, ETA)
• Verify — SHA-256 checksum verification after write
• Cancel — abort in-progress flash at any time
• Compressed images — auto-decompresses .gz, .bz2, .xz, .zip
• Drive safety — warns on system drives, large drives, read-only drives

Building

cargo build --release

Requires Rust and the system dependencies for GPUI (see crepuscularity docs).

macOS

Writing to block devices requires root. Run with:

sudo cargo run --release

Or build and run the binary with sudo.

Development

cargo run           # build and run
cargo test          # run unit tests (41)
crepus dev --bin incisor --dev  # hot-reload loop

License

MPL-2.0. Derived from balenaEtcher (Apache-2.0).