DAEMON Tools8.1.706

Name: DAEMON Tools
Price: 5.99 $
Rating: 4.5 (5 reviews)

16 July 2020

Utility for creation and mounting of disc images.

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Overview

DAEMON Tools is a solution for mounting and creating CD/DVD/HDD disc images.

Access Options

Mount images in the following supported formats: *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.bin/*.cue, *.ape/*.cue, *.flac/*.cue, *.iso, *.isz, *.mds/*.mdf, *.mdx, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.dmg, *.vhd, *.tc, *.zip.
Use the list of mounted devices with images of all formats in Finder under Devices category
View history list of recently mounted images
Make use of system hotkeys for mounting and ejecting
Use Autostart and Automount options
Get automatic notifications about updates
Set DVD region for a drive;
Mounted device quantity is not restricted any longer.

Create images

Make ISO, MDX, and MDS/MDF images
Use custom virtual discs for backups
Compress created images to save the hard disk space
Encrypt custom images to protect important data

What's new in DAEMON Tools

Version 8.1.706:

What's new:

Burn dual-layer BD discs
Mount more types of audio images
Use of RAM disk feature for free
Add USB disks as flash drives to create a bootable USB
Watch progress at Dock icon and get notified when completed
Find iSCSI Initiator name easily
Manage DAEMON Tools context menu for Finder in app preferences

Bugs fixed:

Issues when burning Audio CDs to optical and virtual drives
Error with applying region to DVD discs
Problems with ZIP archives created with Mac OS
Minor bugs

20 Reviews of DAEMON Tools

Very good app, I do not use It a lot, but when I need it specially for ISCSI volumes, it works very well.

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"Daemon Tools" has stopped working since upgrade from version 2.3 to 3.1.x. The app hangs after startup.

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b2bmgr

25 December 2014

Version: 3.0.138

And a Happy New Year!

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Hi everyone! We've finally added ability to create images in the newest version of DAEMON Tools for Mac. Also, our application was released with new fancy design, inspired by OS X Yosemite. Dear MacUpdate users, please, leave your feedback about DAEMON Tools! We are constantly working at making it more usable, convenient and useful for you, so your feedbacks, opinions, ideas are very important to us. Thank you for choosing DAEMON Tools! And Merry Christmas!

22 September 2014

Version: 2.3.114

Dear MacUpdate users! After reading lots of comments you left under DAEMON Tools listing, we shall assume, that Disc-Soft Ltd moved forward a lot since those times. But, nevertheless, if you have something to say: Any critics, comments, claims - you are welcomed here! Our company appreciate your attention and opinion.

Yoshinatsu

20 May 2014

Version: 2.2.81

Too little, too late. This is pretty useless on the Mac, there are far better (and free) tools on Mac OS X after so many years. And for most purposes, the included Disk Utility is enough.

I've used the windows version of this, and it is a bloated dog of a thing. Thankfully, the Mac version is simple and does its task well. This is the only app I know of to easily mount cue/flac and cue/ape files. I have my CDs stored as lossless images so this app is great for mounting them. A minor annoyance is the inability to mount anything with an ISRC field in the cue file, and inability to mount cue's with tracks in separate files. A MAJOR annoyance, and the reason I'm contemplating not buying this and dumping it totally, is that it has some highly suspect privacy behaviour. Little Snitch has detected it attempting to open connections to resources.web-search-home.com - what the hell is this?

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anonymous-dingo-693

24 January 2013

Version: 1.0.4

This says it's "expired" on launch and won't run. There's a newer version on the company website.

DAEMON Tools Lite for Mac appears to install files in directories in /usr This may being done in part by DAEMONToolsPrivilegedHelperLoader.app (DAEMONToolsVirtualSCSIBus.kext may also be a factor) and this may also bepart of source of "Helper tool" errors that prevent DAEMON Tools Lite for Mac from working as promised.

bb553

22 December 2012

Now updated to DAEMON Tools Lite v11.12; Errors: Unable to load driver. Helper tool error. may prevent update from working.

14 November 2012

If the developer wants to make this useful for OS X users to mount things, perhaps consider disc images files that users have to boot into Mac OS 9 to mount as read/write images - like the ShrinkWrap disc image file format originally created by Chad Magendanz...

Really usefull to mount CUE/FLAC files as real CD.

Ulyssesric

29 May 2012

DAEMON Tool was as good disc image mounter on Windows, until it start to bundle WhenU AD-ware and force users to install the search bar tool. When the Windows 7 was released, the old version of DAEMON Tool was also the source of many crashes on my machine. So I switched to MagicDisk since 2010. On the Mac platform, I don't see it necessary to install such tool. Mac users get no problem with ISO, and you can also handle APE and CUE will with Cog and XLD. Disc images created with other 3rd party clone tool are primarily used for personal backup; they're seldom "released" to public.

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SickTeddyBear

28 May 2012

Here's a description of the image formats supported, other than .dmg and .iso: BlindWrite images (*.b5t, *.b6t) BlindRead images (*.bwt) CloneCD images (*.ccd) DiscJuggler images (*.cdi) Cue sheets files (*.cue) Compressed ISO images (*.isz) Media Descriptor files (*.mds) Media Data eXtended images (*.mdx) Nero images (*.nrg) APE images (*.ape)

Jjpong

When I first saw the comment by alekskiss, I thought it was the developer who gave his or her app 5 stars themselves. Apparently, my suspicion is correct if you see this guy's other comments talking like the developer. That's pretty cheesy.

Helmo-Hass

ahahahh OMG why in the world a mac user would ever have the need of this? all images mostly are dmg and we can very well handle that as well all other formats around as it has been since os9, plus the majority of all the formats DT offers are winblows and never will come on mac.. then Titanium (maybe all winblows users coming to ac doesnt know, so please instead of dreaming of all s*i*s you have on microsoft try to learn the best you can all possibilities a mac can offer) ... titanium can handle a large variety of images, as cue nrg etc... specificalli for nero you just need to change the extension to .toast as its exactly the same, and the rest is for all the others applications i've seen during these years. So thaks daemon and all others winblows publishers for your interest on mac, but PLEASE if you like mac just buy it, DONT feel in the need to keep your OLD custumers which moved to mac by offering (i mean trying to keep em all anyways) services they dont have anymore, most of times you just need to read the Manual!!! it becomes so boring to see all these win developers making their soft mac friendly... now on 2012, Why you dindn't offer the same many years ago.. when we really were in the need of it??? But maybe its the way it must be, apple anyway now sux, no more macpros, shortly no more system either, just a stupid tablet with a shining interface and so on... Goodbye Macintosh r.i.p my old good friend

Why is that we don't have the option to mount a DMG? That's an image too, when I tried to mount a dog, I got the following error "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.", I ignored it and its not mounted, but shows up as mounted with just the file path :(. Next when I try to unmount it, I get the following "Unable to eject .dmg. Image is in use by some application. Try quitting applications and press Retry or press 'Eject' to ignore it." The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Still can eject it.

This is going to be really interesting to see how this app is going to perform on Mac, having said that, what additional features can be expected for the next couple of releases? BTW your thumbnail is of a Windows machine, you definitely want to change it in here :)

Naoh

It is going to be interesting to see how useful this tool becomes on the Mac. I have found it very handy on Windows, as there, disk image files can't be mounted without a tool such as this. However, since Mac OS X is able to mount .iso files, the real value this tool will have is with the other image formats. In the end, it will depend how commonplace those other formats are in comparison to .iso.

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