7 free programs for burning discs: the most compact ones

Today I’ll tell you about free programs for burning discs, which are also the most compact data recording applications. Their functionality includes a maximum of two or three tasks, but which the applications perform with a bang! This simplicity attracts potential users to choose such programs for burning discs if recording combines are of no use. Moreover, the weight of the presented recording programs rarely exceeds 1 MB. Small size and minimal functionality are the key to stable operation.

The software listed below was selected based on its ease of use and minimal functionality that is easy to understand. All applications work on Windows 7, 8 and 10 (32-bit) without any complaints.

Read below for a brief overview of mini-programs for burning discs.

UsefulUtils Discs Studio

Renaming UsefulUtils Discs Studio to aBurner did not bring new functionality to the utility; the application completely repeats the functionality of its predecessor. Maybe it’s for the better, the aBurner disc burning program has not lost its main qualities - minimalism and stability.


aBurner

The main features of the aBurner utility are similar to UsefulUtils Discs Studio.

Free Disc Burner

Free Disc Burner is a comprehensive disc burning program that supports burning any type of data to any disc.


Free Disc Burner

The utility's interface is designed to be as simple as possible, but still has unique burning capabilities that allow users to create their own discs quickly and easily.

Features of Free Disc Burner:

  • Supported media types: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, DVD-RAM, DVD±R DL, BD-R, BD-RE.
  • Features of Free Disc Burner:
  • Support for buffer protection technology (BurnProof, JustLink, etc.);
  • Disk speed determination;
  • Selecting the disk file system;
  • Erase disk;
  • Multi-session or single recording session on all supported disc types, including Blu-Ray (BD-R and BD-RE);
  • Creating ISO images for all supported media disc formats;
  • Support for UNICODE file and folder names;
  • Supports the function Turn off the computer when the operation is finished;
  • DVD-Video format support if VIDEO_TS and Audio_TS folders are added.

Free Disc Burner is a completely free utility for burning discs.

Burn4Free

Free software for burning CDs and DVDs. The functionality of the Burn4Free application is generally similar to Free Disc Burner. But there are also differences. So Burn4Free contains its own disc cover editor.


Burn4Free

Main features of the Burn4Free utility:

  • Copying data of various types (WAV, FLAC, WavPack, WMA, M3U (mp3 Winamp collection), MP3, MP2, MP1 OGG and CDA, CD audio tracks);
  • Nature SCSI, IDE/EIDE, SATA, USB;
  • Interface in several languages;
  • Printing covers on discs;
  • Recording and saving .iso files;
  • Support for dual-layer discs;
  • Recording MP3 collection.

Active ISO Burner

A very small program for burning disk images. It supports recording ISO images to the following types of discs: CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, DL DVD+RW, HD DVD, Blu-ray.


Active ISO Burner

Key features of Active ISO Burner:

  • Improved user interface;
  • Compact application installer;
  • Three independent interfaces SPTI, ASPI, SPTD;
  • Works under a user account (using SPTD);
  • Represents information about an ISO file.

At the end of the burn, a complete log of the actions performed is displayed: errors and progress information.

Passcape ISO Burner

Passcape ISO Burner is an excellent tool for burning ISO images. Passcape ISO Burner is compatible with most CD/DVD recorders and USB devices (including Memory Stick, Compact Flash, SmartMedia, Secure Digital, USB flash drives, USB ZIP drives, USB HDD, etc.) The utility interface is minimalistic and very simple


Passcape ISO Burner

Main features of the Passcape ISO Burner utility:

  • Burn ISO image to CD/DVD or USB drives;
  • Creating bootable disks (including USB disks) from ISO images;
  • Extract ISO images to disk;
  • Simple user interface;
  • No installation required.

Small CD-Writer

The functionality of Small CD-Writer is in many ways similar to aBurner and UsefulUtils Discs Studio, which is wrapped in a different shell.


Small CD-Writer

For those who like the classic style of Windows 2000 or Windows XP, they will appreciate the Small CD-Writer interface, which is very reminiscent of Windows application interfaces of yesteryear. Hence, it is easy to use a program that can create multi-session and bootable disks, burn ISO images, view all available sessions on the disk and save projects as ISO images.

I hope the above applications will find their users who appreciate the minimalism of disc burning applications and do not require 10-in-1 functionality from such programs.