Every other day we need to write or burn something on a CD or DVD, may it be videos, music, documents, presentations or something else. Most of us use Nero CD/DVD burner to write documents since it’s pretty effective and feature rich. However, it comes very expensive with a lots of features that we barely use. It consumes a lots of space on our hard disk and uses a lots of resources while burning CDs/DVDs. Here is the best 5 Nero alternative CD/DVD burners that comes for free.

1. InfraRecorder

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning software with a wide range of powerful features and easy-to-use user interface.

• Write data, audio and record them to physical discs as well as disc images
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs, disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE)
  
• Option to erase rewritable discs using four different methods
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc)
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.

2. Ultimate CD/DVD Burner

Ultimate CD/DVD Burner is an another freeware CD and DVD burning tool using which you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.

• Supports internal and external USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD/DVD writers
• Burn data, copy discs and create backups easily
• Make stunning photo CD albums
• Option to create ISO CDs easily
• Advanced options for experienced users

3. CD Burner XP

CDBurnerXP can burn CDs and DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, ISOs on a multilanguage interface. This freeware is one of the best and handy CD/DVD burning softwares.

• Supports disc burning of audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
• Data verification, bootable disc, multi-language interface support
• Burn, create and convert ISO files from bin- and -nrg files
• Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008, Win 7

4. ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray burning tool with various features that you should have on your computer.

• Supports BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI formats
• Burn Audio CDs via DirectShow/ACM (Supports AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA, WV formats)
• Build DVD, HD DVD video discs, Blu-ray video discs easily
• Options to write images files to disk, wrire files/folders to disk, create image file from disk, create image file from files/folders, verify disk
• Compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

5. BurnAware

BurnAware Free is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images.

• Create data, bootable, multi-session, audio, MP3 CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
• Ability to create DVD-Video, record boot disc images
• Supports all image formats, CD-Text and unicode characters
• Auto-verification of written files once burning process is completed
• Compatible with Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7