Pi Imager – community managed fork of rpi-imager March 23, 2022
Posted by GuySoft in open source, programming.Tags: cpp, open source, qt, Raspberry Pi
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Hey all,
I have started to maintain a fork of rpi-imager called Pi Imager. The main goal of it is to have a place to host images for anyone who wants their images downloaded and flashed with a single tool. There are already 7 extra distributions you can flash on the unofficial imager and I hope with this post this number will grow.
The changes to the official imager are:
- There is an unofficial category that has images you can’t get on the official imager. You can submit a pull request to this repository and add yours.
- Everything is automatic. You can fork it, make your own commits, and you have a working build system –
- Every new commit to pi-imager builds a new build for Windows, Mac and Linux, ready to use
- When you ask to add a new image and the pull request is accepted, it’s added to the global list automatically
- There is a feature to disable username change that can be set on the distribution side. It broke stuff in OctoPi (currently in main branch).
- Appimage support for Linux (fixes this issue)
- Trademark and colors have been removed as requested by RaspberryPi, it’s purple now!
I want to stress that the fork is here to work with the community and not to split it, you can have both installed. I have been in contact with Raspberry Pi before and after its release. It lets us have something that they can’t provide – an unofficial place that with a single click downloads and flashes community-maintained images, and lots of them.

Code and image contributions are welcome!
Get Pi Imager here
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