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Rufid

Rufid is a free, open-source file manager for Android. Write and recover bootable USB media. It has 112 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

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About Rufid

Rufid turns an Android phone into a practical USB boot-media tool. It writes local ISO/IMG files to attached USB mass-storage devices, streams direct image URLs, creates a small FreeDOS drive, verifies written media, inspects boot records, runs read benchmarks, backs up a USB device to an Android document, extracts ZIP files, and recovers used boot media back into a normal FAT32 or exFAT drive. Windows installer ISOs can be written as a FAT32 UEFI layout, with install.wim split when it exceeds the FAT32 file-size limit, or as an NTFS data volume with an MBR or GPT UEFI:NTFS helper layout. These paths have been booted to the Windows Setup language screen in QEMU/OVMF.

Privacy and F-Droid

F-Droid builds Rufid from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.

No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.

Screenshots

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Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.

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FAQ

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Is Rufid free and open source?

Yes. Rufid's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.

How do I install Rufid?

You can install Rufid from F-Droid (package io.github.rufid); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v0.2.1).

Is Rufid still maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Jul 19, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Jul 21, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.