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Top Flutter Cache and Temporary Storage packages
Last updated: January 26, 2025
Caching is the process of storing data in a temporary storage area or a temporary database so that it can be accessed quickly at a later time. When a user requests a piece of data, the cache checks to see if it has a copy of that data before requesting the data from the original source. Also, it can be used to temporarily store data while the app is offline.
The complete list of Flutter packages that can help you with Caching, Temporary Storage, Cache Database and related utilities is provided below.
cached_network_image
👍 6.49K ⬇️ 1.6M
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter library to load and cache network images. Can also be used with placeholder and error widgets.
flutter_cache_manager
👍 1.75K ⬇️ 1.6M
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Generic cache manager for flutter. Saves web files on the storages of the device and saves the cache info using sqflite.
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flutter_cached_pdfview
👍 479 ⬇️ 67.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A package to show Native PDF View for iOS and Android, support Open from a different resource like Path, Asset or Url and Cache it.
dio_http_cache
👍 240 ⬇️ 1.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
http cache lib for Flutter dio like RxCache.It use sqflite as disk cache,and google/quiver-dart/LRU strategy as memory cache.
cached_video_player
👍 222 ⬇️ 2.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A new flutter plugin that is virtually a clone of official video_player plugin except that it supports caching( Android and iOS)
fast_cached_network_image
👍 192 ⬇️ 6.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A flutter package to cache network image fastly without any native dependencies.You can add beautiful loaders, percentage indicators and error builder.
api_cache_manager
👍 148 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
API Cache Manager is a Utility package built with Flutter SDK and SQLite Package. This package will help to make your Rest API store in the local db for offline access.
cached_query
👍 67 ⬇️ 59.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A simple library for dealing with server state in dart and flutter.
flutter_map_tile_caching
👍 119 ⬇️ 7.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Plugin for 'flutter_map' providing advanced caching functionality, with ability to download map regions for offline use.
weak_map
👍 20 ⬇️ 87.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
WeakMap is a map where the keys are weakly referenced. WeakContainer lets you check if an object is the same you had before. Cache functions for memoization with weak-references.
stock
👍 112 ⬇️ 364
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Dart package for Async Data Loading and Caching. Combine local (DB, cache) and network data simply and safely.
firestore_cache
👍 102 ⬇️ 2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin for fetching Firestore documents with read from cache first then server
dio_cache_interceptor_hive_store
👍 50 ⬇️ 40K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A DB cache store implementation with Hive for dio_cache_interceptor package.
cached
👍 83 ⬇️ 3.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Dart package with build-in code generation. Simplifies and speedup creation of cache mechanism for dart classes.
media_cache_manager
👍 80 ⬇️ 182
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This package helps you to cache media (Audio, Video, Image, etc...).
flutter_auto_cache
👍 57 ⬇️ 73
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Automated cache management with encryption, substitution/invalidation policies and efficient size handling.
flutter_requery
👍 52 ⬇️ 680
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter library for fetching, caching and invalidating asynchronous data.
cached_memory_image
👍 45 ⬇️ 4.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter library to show images from the Base64, Uint8List and keep them in the cache directory.
cache_manager
👍 48 ⬇️ 4
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Cache manager to store local cache. Cache manager is wrapper for storing various data type(JSON, String, int etc) as the local cache in your Flutter app.
just_audio_cache
👍 45 ⬇️ 677
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Collection of extension function of just_audio package to auto-handle caching audio files
flutter_cache_manager_firebase
👍 43 ⬇️ 522
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
CacheManager implementation for firebase_storage. Uses the gs:// as key and translates to https://
flutter_map_cache
👍 31 ⬇️ 9.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A slim yet powerful caching plugin for flutter_map tile layers.
asset_cache
👍 41 ⬇️ 404
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Load and cache binary asset of any type given a decoder. Built in support for byte data, images, json and text.
memory_cache
👍 36 ⬇️ 2.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Memory Cache is simple, fast and global in-memory cache with CRUD features.
json_cache
👍 38 ⬇️ 495
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
An object-oriented package for caching user data locally in json; a combinable layer on top of local storage packages that unifies them.
disposable_cached_images
👍 37 ⬇️ 547
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A flutter package for displaying and releasing images from memory.
firebase_cached_image
👍 34 ⬇️ 1.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Cache Manager and Cached ImageProvider for Firebase Cloud Storage Objects.
neat_cache
👍 22 ⬇️ 6.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A neat cache abstraction for wrapping in-memory or redis caches.
flutter_cache
👍 22 ⬇️ 1.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple cache package for flutter. This package is a wrapper for shared preference and makes working with shared preference easier.
cached_value
👍 19 ⬇️ 3.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A simple way to cache values that result from rather expensive operations.
bot_storage
👍 22 ⬇️ 168
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A useful package provide an interface to handle read, write and delete operations in reactive way
dio_cache_interceptor_db_store
👍 13 ⬇️ 3.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A DB cache store implementation with Drift for dio_cache_interceptor package.
optimized_cached_image
👍 115 ⬇️ 360
Maintenance Status: Poor
A library for loading images from network, resizing as per container size and caching while being memory sensitive.
paulonia_cache_image
👍 35 ⬇️ 127
Maintenance Status: Average
Flutter package for cache images in storage or memory from the network or Google Cloud Storage. It supports Android, iOS and Web.
cache_image
👍 32 ⬇️ 51
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin to load and cache network or firebase storage images with a retry mechanism if the download fails.
flutter_cache_store
👍 24 ⬇️ 57
Maintenance Status: Average
More configurable cache manager for Flutter. Cache http get requests to mobile devices file system.