Ashampoo^® Burning Studio FREE⁠

Our best CD burner

The tried-and-tested free and feature-rich disc burning software

Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE is your fast and convenient way to handle your disc burning needs: Burn data discs, create and burn backups, rip or create your own audio CDs or burn existing movies to Blu-ray. These are just a few of the many features of Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE! Program handling is easy and logical for beginners and advanced users alike.

Download Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE for free and use it forever!

Burning CDs Made Easy–Here's how:

Start the program and select the desired function (e.g., “Burn data to disc”)

Add files via drag & drop

Insert a blank CD, DVD, or Blu-ray and click “Burn”–done!

Burn data with ease

Free software to burn CD, DVD, and Blu-ray disc in no time

Naturally, burning data to CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs is one of the strengths if this program. Existing discs, including rewritable media (RW), can be updated or deleted, if supported. Get the freeware solution that does it all, and with any hardware!

Free audio burning software

Rip audio discs with track detection and create your own music CDs in various formats

Audiophiles will find Burning Studio FREE quite useful to extract audio from CDs along with automatic disc and track recognition. Output formats include MP3, WMA and WAV in all possible levels of quality.

Fit more songs on your disc

Enjoy hours of music with MP3 and WMA audio discs

Apart from traditional audio CDs, MP3 and WMA are also supported for several hours of audio on a single disc. Built-in normalization ensures equal volume levels and the integrated player provides instant audio feedback to select the right tracks with ease.

When we developed Burning Studio FREE, it was important to us to provide a tool that clearly outperforms the burning routines built into Windows and handles all the classic tasks free of charge. And as long as burning still matters to users around the world, we’ll keep this software up to date, that's a promise!

Sebastian Schwarz

Chief Executive Officer, Ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG

Burn movies and disc copies

Burn movies in the highest quality or create copies with ease

With Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE, you can also burn HD and Full HD videos as long as the required files are available as a prepared folder. Creating video CDs (VCD) or super video CDs (SVCD) is also possible in no time. Naturally, the program also creates disc copies in just a few clicks.

Password-protected backups

Maximum safety for your burned files

Burning Studio also comes with powerful backup functionality. Burn or backup any file to internal or external storage media including USB flash drives. Thanks to refined compression technology, backups take up very little space and can be password-protected for additional security. And backups too large to fit on a single disc will simply be spread across multiple volumes. All you then need to restore your files, is Burning Studio FREE and the data discs.

Free ISO burner

Handle disc images like a pro

Handling ISO images is common place especially for professional users. Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE makes it easy to create or burn disc images. Apart from Ashampoo's own ASHDISC format, the program also supports ISO and CUE/BIN. Turn your CDs, DVDs or Blu-rays into images for easier handling.

Free shareware-quality disc burning application

More than 20 years of experience to bring you best-in-class burning results!

At Ashampoo, we don't consider free software second-class products. That's why we subject our free programs to the same rigorous testing as our paid products. It's also why Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE will always receive timely updates to keep up with the latest Windows and/or hardware developments. Want to know how to burn a disc? With ease! Benefit from over two decades of development experience burn you files, photos, movies, and music to disc with Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE!

Always up-to-date burning software

It doesn't matter which Windows, disc type, or disc recorder you use–just do it!

Naturally, Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE is fully Windows 11 (and 7, 8, 10) compatible and gets updated constantly. No matter which operating system, disc recorder, or recordable you use, this dependable burning software produces greats results. To achieve this, we've tested thousands of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays at Ashampoo so you'll never be disappointed!

Switch to Ashampoo Burning Studio 24 and get even more features

The great shareware with limitless possibilities

Get the best-in-class burning software for your disc recorder! The new Ashampoo Burning Studio 24 continues to evolve towards the perfect burning application. The new scratch protection allows you to create discs that remain readable in the event of surface damage! The history feature can instantly restore your most recent 20 projects–including all of your modifications. The powerful video editor lets you create home movies and custom audiobooks in no time. And how about a wealth of new templates, themes, and menus designs for your multimedia projects? You got it–in Ashampoo Burning Studio 24. Enjoy!

Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE supports the following media types and formats:

CD, DVD, and Blu-ray (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, BD-R, BD-RE)

Audio formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC

Disc images: ISO, CUE/BIN, ASHDISC

Video formats: Burn Video_TS folders for DVDs

Compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7 (32- and 64-bit)