--- title: Daemon Tools Reviews meta\_title: 'Daemon Tools Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 50 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Daemon Tools works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 50 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Backup url: https://www.g2.com/categories/backup --- # Daemon Tools Reviews & Product Details DAEMON Tools for Mac is more than just imaging software. It allows you to play FLAC or APE Audio images, work with VHD and mount everything from ISO to BIN. * * * Seller [Disc Soft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/disc-soft) Discussions [Daemon Tools Community](https://www.g2.com/products/daemon-tools/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/daemon-tools/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Acronis True Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Acronis True Image") Acronis True Image 4.3/5(71) ](https://www.g2.com/products/acronis-true-image/reviews) [ ![Macrium Backup & Restore](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Macrium Backup & Restore") Macrium Backup & Restore 4.7/5(91) ](https://www.g2.com/products/macrium-backup-restore/reviews) [ ![MiniTool Partition Wizard](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MiniTool Partition Wizard") MiniTool Partition Wizard 4.4/5(56) ](https://www.g2.com/products/minitool-partition-wizard/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/daemon-tools/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 50 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) HS Haydar S. Mechanical Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/12/2021 "Master of iso tools" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? You can use it as a physical disk, thanks to the ISO format, to install a virtual disk drive using Deamon tools. It is one of the tools that open the most preferred iso extension in the Windows operating system. It is a very successful tool as disk boot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? It needs to open damaged iso files partially. You cannot access the iso file because of a small bad sector. The most preferred reason for the application is its simplicity. The excess of banners is tiring for the eyes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? It has helped me in many vital situations, such as disk cloning, creating the virtual disk, running boot files. Like games, operating systems etc. I use it to view and manage disk images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Murilo A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Murilo A.") MA Murilo A. Associate Scientist | R&D PRT Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/4/2021 "Great for emulation without the need of a physical storage device" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? Daemon tools is an easy to use tool to emulate larger files that need to be "broken" into pieces due to business needs, as an example, the configuration of product lines robotic arms with AI from factories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? Depending on the hardware configurations, the server how needs to emulate the files can take longer than expected. If any change is needed and the app needs to be used, the loading delay from the software must be entered in the timing (CPS). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? Reducing physical storage and transportation need of servers, pen drives etc - enabling safety and compliance with the business data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![David M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David M.") DM David M. Disabled Tech Blogger Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/25/2021 "Excellent ISO Image File Mounting Suite for HDD and Optical discs" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? I like being able to image an optical disc to a file to mount and use for bootable USB purposes or in lieu of a physical disc to use for software launching without placing the disc in the drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? The upgrade licensing process and associated costs with doing so, as an individual blogger or sole proprietor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Daemon Tools: If you want to image your old physical disc images for archiving purposes and use them with computer systems that do not have an optical drive this software has what you need to accomplish this tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? I use the program to launch .iso disc images for virtual drives and software emulation purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/24/2021 "A Great virtual disk imaging software" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? It is easy to use when you known what you are doing the disk mounting burning feature are literally in front of you so just select the file and mount it as a virtual disk. You can create bootable usb for installation of windows very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? Well a person who doesnt know much about disk mounting and creating iso file might get confused about what to do and might have to search youtube to get around it and get your work done, There isnt much walkthrough of the app to for new users to get it work done Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? It helped me create bootable usb for windows installation and for installation of some games Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chris Q.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chris Q.") CQ Chris Q. Chief Technology Officer Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/2/2021 "CD Image loading made easy" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? I love that I can mount my CD images(ISO) fast and easily right on my laptop, without having to burn it to a DVD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? Some of the features I would like to use are paid addons but I guess they have to make money somehow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? Mounting cd images for testing before deploying them in a real-world environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/29/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Wholesale](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Wholesale") UW Verified User in Wholesale Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/28/2021 "Handles virtual DVDs like a champ" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? Almost no computers come with CD drives of any flavor, so Daemon lets me still use software that ships with CDs or the like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? I find it doesn't always play nice with my systems. There are times where I have to add or remove virtual drives to ensure that everything works smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? I have no limitations as to software shipped with various devices, whether proprietary software or drivers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/14/2021 "Best ISO Mounting Tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? Fastest ISO mounting tool. It allows mounting a massive ISO image for at least an amount of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? The user interface is not very likely, but it has a lot of features to match. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? It very much helped to mount my old CD, which has some important photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mauro B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mauro B.") MB Mauro B. Site Reliability Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/28/2020 "Very userfull for converting my phisical medias backup to ISO images and preserve it forever." 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? It is reliable. All images that I've created with Daemon Tools worked after, even when I sent it through internet. And it is very easy to re-access images that you created with DT. The interface is very intutive and clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? I don't found any issues in Daemon Tools. It is super recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Daemon Tools: It is not just a tool to convert and create images from medias. It can be a complete solution and worth the cost for what it does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? I had a lot of backup stored in physical media (CD and DVD) that I converted to ISO images and sent it to an cloud storage. I don't need to store physical medias anymore. When Ineed to access some data, I just mount the images, access the information needed and after that I can just leave the image on the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ronald M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ronald M.") RM Ronald M. Technical Staff Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/5/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "The best virtual disk emulator" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? Daemon tools, is a tool that allows us to create copies of physical disks and convert them to digital format. This as a backup medium for the information that may be contained in this. It also allows us to create virtual disks with the digital information that we have to later convert them into physical disks or keep them in iso, mdx or other formats. Although the main function of Daemon tools is to create virtual drives that are able to read these digital discs to give you access to information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? Daemon tools, has few things that can upset because it is a very useful program, the only bad thing that can be caused to this program is the memory consumption when you are performing an emulation, because it occupies a lot of RAM as well as the hard disk write and read memory, this could be optimized to obtain a better result and performance when working with this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Daemon Tools: Daemon tools is the most feasible program in terms of virtual drives as well as creating physical and digital disks, in order to create backup or backup copies of your information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? Daemon tools, has helped me to make backup copies of all my physical disks so as not to lose the information in case of damage or loss of these. It also helps me create a physical disk through my DVD drive and have access to the information I need through its virtual drives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DS david s. Sure administration Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/18/2019 "Advanced Emulation" 4/5 What do you like best about Daemon Tools? Creates one or more virtual players to be able to visualize and install programs without having to have a physical dvd player Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Daemon Tools? It is necessary to include more quantities of formats so that the program is more complete Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Daemon Tools: Is very useful to keep all the information you have on physical disks to store and then transform it into an iso file, ensuring that all files remain intact, this program is primordial for portable computers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Daemon Tools solving and how is that benefiting you? To be able to view the information that is protected in iso file, this for the purpose of converting all that information into a single file and not get corrupted Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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