There are CD/DVD burners, and there are CD/DVD burners. In fact, the market is full of this kind of software solutions and no matter how much we’d struggle, we can’t find the best one from the first try.

FinalBurner is one of the available disc burners and although it promises to bring you everything you’d ever need from such a tool, you might be a bit disappointed.

If we’re judging just by looking at the spec list, FinalBurner is indeed a great app. It can burn data CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, it has the ability to create audio discs and bootable ones, rip audio CDs, burn ISOs and much more.

But things are more complicated in reality. The first that could make you laugh is the interface which looks totally unprofessional and can barely be compared to the ones boasted by much more powerful disc burning solutions on the market.

A few buttons in the taskbar, separate windows for browsing files and CD burning, just a few options here and there, so FinalBurner lacks a lot of options.

Secondly, you will definitely be shocked by how bad it actually works. The way you can move the window gives you the impression the whole app is sluggish and it probably really is since this happened on multiple machines during our test.

The burning process goes all right, but again, don’t expect to be impressed by FinalBurner.

As a conclusion, it’s better to keep searching if you are looking for a disc burner, but since it’s free, you could give it a chance to see what it’s up to.