Flutter Gems
Flutter Gems is a curated list of 7250+ useful Dart & Flutter packages that are categorized based on functionality.
Top Flutter Drawer and Navigation Rail packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
The Drawer (or Hamburger Menu) is a slide-out panel typically used for top-level navigation, account switching, or secondary app settings that don't fit in the bottom navigation bar.
Best Practices for Drawers
- Avoid Hiding Primary Navigation: Do not hide your app's most important features inside a drawer. Users rarely open them. Use a Bottom Navigation Bar for core features and reserve the Drawer for settings, profile, and legal links.
- User Header: The top section of a drawer is the perfect place to display the current user's profile picture, name, and email, along with a quick way to switch accounts if supported.
- Gestures: Ensure the drawer can be opened by dragging from the extreme left edge of the screen, as this is a heavily ingrained muscle memory for Android users.
The complete list of Custom Drawers, Side Menus, and Hidden Navigation panels for Flutter is provided below.
flutter_zoom_drawer
👍 1.1K ⬇️ 3.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package with custom implementation of the Side Menu (Drawer)
sidebarx
👍 777 ⬇️ 9.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
flutter multiplatform navigation sidebar / side navigationbar / drawer widget
flutter_slider_drawer
👍 591 ⬇️ 34.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package with custom implementation of the Slider Drawer Menu
easy_sidemenu
👍 458 ⬇️ 6.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
An easy to use side menu (navigation rail) in flutter and can used for navigation
flutter_advanced_drawer
👍 437 ⬇️ 4.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
An advanced drawer widget, that can be fully customized with size, text, color, radius of corners.
collapsible_sidebar
👍 370 ⬇️ 3.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A collapsible sidebar for Flutter apps implementing the Material Design.
shrink_sidemenu
👍 293 ⬇️ 9
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Side Menu plugin for flutter and compatible with liquid ui.
animated_stack
👍 252 ⬇️ 91
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Custom animated stacked pages, to create customisable side menu buttons.
hidden_drawer_menu
👍 241 ⬇️ 599
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Hidden Drawer Menu is a library for adding a beautiful drawer mode menu feature with perspective animation
elastic_drawer
👍 215 ⬇️ 102
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Elastic Drawer - elastic panel that slides in horizontally to show fully customize content (navigation links, menu items, notes etc.)
flutter_admin_scaffold
👍 207 ⬇️ 754
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A scaffold class with a sideBar that works with a appBar.
flutter_side_menu
👍 181 ⬇️ 5.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Flutter's full customizable side menu has been used as a directory for Related Pages, Navigation Items, Filter side and more
drawerbehavior
👍 167 ⬇️ 309
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Drawer behavior is a library that provide an extra behavior on drawer, such as, move view or scaling view's height while drawer on slide..
multilevel_drawer
👍 132 ⬇️ 123
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
An easy to implement Multi Level Drawer for Flutter Applications. Just use this in place of regular Scaffold Drawer and you are ready to go.
side_menu_animation
👍 97 ⬇️ 17
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Animated Side Menu with customizable UI. Inspired in Yalantis library (Android/iOS).
curved_drawer_fork
👍 77 ⬇️ 7
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter widget that provides an easy to use animated drawer.
sidebar_with_animation
👍 66 ⬇️ 34
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Animated collapsible smooth sidebar with full control to customize it for your own designs for Flutter apps
cupertino_sidebar
👍 58 ⬇️ 591
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Brings iOS-style sidebars and floating tab bars to Flutter, providing a sleek, native feel for iPadOS-style navigation in your app.
overlapping_panels
👍 56 ⬇️ 12
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Inspired by Discord's mobile app navigation. Add left and right panels to your app with gestures to reveal panels and callbacks to listen for reveals.
awesome_drawer_bar
👍 55 ⬇️ 410
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package with custom implementation of the Side Menu (Drawer)
fancy_drawer
👍 51 ⬇️ 165
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A fancy , animated and customizable drawer for your flutter apps
animated_rail
👍 50 ⬇️ 152
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter Animated Navigation Rail with multiple cool effects and options like closing and openeing the rail.
slidable_bar
👍 48 ⬇️ 119
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package to show SideBar and hide it and custimaze your clicker.
sidebar_bigeagle
👍 47 ⬇️ 60
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
This package adds a Sidebar widget which is convenient for Web & Desktop.
animated_sidebar
👍 42 ⬇️ 175
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A collapsable sidebar plugin for Flutter, optimized for web and desktop applications.
anydrawer
👍 35 ⬇️ 455
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A powerful Flutter drawer that slides from any edge — left, right, top, or bottom. No Scaffold required. Supports backdrop blur, drag gestures, return values, multiple drawers, swipe-from-edge, and declarative API.
flutter_slide_drawer
👍 27 ⬇️ 179
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
It would help you make slide_drawer_scaffold easy with animation :)
folding_menu
👍 22 ⬇️ 24
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A fancy easy to use Folding Menu for Flutter Applications
bottomreveal
👍 20 ⬇️ 45
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
An animated bottom reveal widget.
arc_sidebar
👍 14 ⬇️ 57
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Sidebar/Drawer for flutter pps.
rail_navigator
👍 6 ⬇️ 24
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A customizable side navigation rail for Flutter apps, allowing developers to create dynamic and responsive navigation menus with configurable options.
simple_sidebar
👍 5 ⬇️ 14
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A very simple sidebar with Icons, Texts, Header and smoothing. Easy to implement and easy to use
flutter_inner_drawer
👍 480 ⬇️ 161
Maintenance Status: Poor
Inner Drawer is an easy way to create an internal side section (left/right) where you can insert a list menu or other.
foldable_sidebar
👍 194 ⬇️ 20
Maintenance Status: Poor
An easy to use Package for adding Foldable Flutter Navigation Sidebar to your Flutter Application.
animated_drawer
👍 177 ⬇️ 53
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple yet fully customizable drawer with animations for flutter.
drawer_swipe
👍 76 ⬇️ 18
Maintenance Status: Poor
Drawer swipe Package for displaying multi layer drawer
slide_drawer
👍 49 ⬇️ 33
Maintenance Status: Poor
An easy way to use drawer in Flutter with cool sliding animation.
flurry_navigation
👍 34 ⬇️ 32
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Smooth and Animated navigation package for flutter that doesn’t interfere with the Screen with adjustable colors, shapes, and navigation logic.
tridimensional_drawer
👍 32 ⬇️ 17
Maintenance Status: Poor
Tridimensional Drawer is an easy way to create a 3D Perspective drawer, where you can insert any type of widget.
mobile_sidebar
👍 31 ⬇️ 19
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Responsive Sidebar for Flutter that follows Material Design
navigation_drawer_menu
👍 27 ⬇️ 23
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter Material Design Navigation Drawer Menu. This package gives you the NavigationDrawerMenu widget which acts like a ListView. The example implements the full Navigation Drawer.
flutter_sidebar
👍 21 ⬇️ 43
Maintenance Status: Poor
An easy to configure sidebar widget for your flutter mobile/web apps.