PowerISO is a program that allows us to copy, create, and edit ISO images.

CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays can be saved in a single file on the hard disk. That is to say, the content of the Disc will become a .ISO file (or another extension). For example, we can convert any Blu-Ray movie to an ISO file called “movie_4.iso”. This file will contain all Blu-Ray information. To create and manipulate this type of file, it is necessary to use specific software.

PowerISO can handle most CD/DVD/Blu-Ray image formats. Among others, it recognizes the following formats: .iso, .daa, .bin, .cue, .mdf, .mds, .ashdisc, .img, .cdi, .nrg, .dmg, .vcd, .vmdk, etc. This means that we can open any of those files and manipulate the content.

This software deals with disc images as if they were compressed files. That is to say, we can open the disc image and see all files and directories on the disc, remove them, delete them, or add new files. It also allows the extraction of the contents of the images with a single click so that the image's content will be saved in the directory we specify.

With this program, we can create Disc images from existing files. It will be like creating a compressed file. We will select the files we want to include and save them as .ISO files. We can create different types of images, such as: data CD/DVD, DVD UDF, Audio CD, Video CD, Super Video CD, and more.

The program can burn disc images (iso, etc.) to a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disc so that we will not need another burning software to burn ISO (or other extensions) to CD/DVD/Blu-Ray. In addition, we can make CD-to-CD copies; that is to say, we can use the program as a conventional CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burning software. It is also possible to erase rewritable discs (RW).

Another interesting tool is the CD-to-MP3 converter. Thanks to this utility, we can extract an audio CD to MP3, FLAC, or APE. Being able to do the reverse, that is to say, create an audio CD from MP3 files, FLAC, or APE.

This software can create up to 23 Virtual Drives and “mount” the disk images on them. For example, we can create a Virtual Drive named F: and “insert” a DVD, CD, or Blu-Ray image. In this way, Computer will read F: unit as if it's a real Disc and not an image file (.iso or other) in the hard disk.

We can create “bootable” USB drives that will allow you to start the Computer from the USB drive created with this program.

As we see, PowerISO is a complete solution that goes beyond the management of disc images and also allows disc burning, virtual drives emulation, and more. Thanks to this software, we'll not need to install several programs to perform different actions.

We must pay attention to installation, as this software tries to install “Potentially Unwanted Software.” To avoid this, on the screen where it asks if we want to install “Search Protect,” we will press the “Skip” button (if you press the “Agree&Install” button, it will install a program that has nothing to do with what we want to install).
In the next window, we should choose “Custom (advanced)” and uncheck the box that says “Install TuneUp Utilities 2014”.
We will avoid installing additional and unnecessary programs by doing these two actions.

The software was launched in the year 2004 and to this day continues to be actively developed. It is paid software, and the software's demo is limited and only allows us to edit and create images of less than 300 Megabytes.