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Top Flutter Background Effects, Gradients and Shaders packages
Last updated: December 4, 2024
A background can be added to a Flutter app that usually appears underneath other widgets. It can be a static image, a gradient, a motion effect backgroud or can utilize shaders to render realistic effects. Backgrounds help in adding depth to an app.
The complete list of Flutter packages that can add Background Images, Background Effects, Gradients & Shaders to Flutter apps is provided below.
mesh_gradient
Dart 3 compatible 👍 170
Maintenance Status: Good
Widgets which create beautiful fluid-like mesh gradients in Flutter.
animate_gradient
Dart 3 compatible 👍 156
Maintenance Status: Good
This Package lets you make animated gradients without any hassle. Just pass the primary and secondary colors and you're done.
particles_flutter
Dart 3 compatible 👍 152
Maintenance Status: Good
A flutter package for particle animation. You can control the animation speed, number of Particles on the screen, dimension and shape of particle via connecting lines,etc.
weather_animation
Dart 3 compatible 👍 101
Maintenance Status: Good
The package contains beautiful weather animations. Easy setup with the weather configurator!
mesh
Dart 3 compatible 👍 98
Maintenance Status: Good
Fast and highly customizable animated Mesh Gradients for Flutter applications. Using Shaders and vertices.
newton_particles
Dart 3 compatible 👍 95
Maintenance Status: Good
Create stunning animations with configurable particle emitters. Add rain, smoke, and more effects to your Flutter app!
patterns_canvas
Dart 3 compatible 👍 93
Maintenance Status: Good
Draw patterns like stripes or dots on canvas elements or widgets.
floating_bubbles
Dart 3 compatible 👍 81
Maintenance Status: Good
A Flutter Package for adding Floating bubbles on the Foreground to any Flutter widget.
flutter_shaders
Dart 3 compatible 👍 80
Maintenance Status: Good
A collection of utilities for working with the FragmentProgram API in Flutter.
parallax_rain
Dart 3 compatible 👍 79
Maintenance Status: Good
Use this package to create cool 3D rain effects. Customize with multiple colors, different raindrop speeds, drop trail effects and more!
vitality
Dart 3 compatible 👍 66
Maintenance Status: Good
Add captivating live animations to your Flutter app effortlessly with Vitality!
particles_fly
Dart 3 compatible 👍 47
Maintenance Status: Good
A package that provides an easy way to add particles js in flutter project.
magnifying_glass
Dart 3 compatible 👍 42
Maintenance Status: Good
Flutter real-time magnifying glass lens widget with Barrel/Pincushion distortion.
shader_presets
Dart 3 compatible 👍 39
Maintenance Status: Good
A bunch of ready to use shader presets using shader_buffers package
shader_buffers
Dart 3 compatible 👍 37
Maintenance Status: Good
Using shaders to feed a shader. Make shaders simplier to use.
parallax_bg
Dart 3 compatible 👍 28
Maintenance Status: Good
Create beautiful & interactive parallax backgrounds
flutter_moving_background
Dart 3 compatible 👍 24
Maintenance Status: Good
A Flutter Package to create beautiful and animated backgrounds,such as gradients ,circular forms and particles
particle_field
Dart 3 compatible 👍 131
Maintenance Status: Average
A Flutter Widget for adding high performance custom particle effects to your UI.
parallax_sensors_bg
Dart 3 compatible 👍 101
Maintenance Status: Average
Flutter package to simplify giving a parallax effect in the background of a page that responds to a corresponding sensor detection.
animated_glitch
Dart 3 compatible 👍 95
Maintenance Status: Average
Animated Glitch is a Flutter package that allows you to easily create glitch effects and control them
reflective_visual
Dart 3 compatible 👍 91
Maintenance Status: Average
Reflective visual for flutter apps.
metaballs
Dart 3 compatible 👍 84
Maintenance Status: Average
A metaballs implementation for flutter using webgl on the web and the shader package on other devices
aura_box
Dart 3 compatible 👍 49
Maintenance Status: Average
Flutter Widget that combines multiple radial gradients and blur effect.
fancy_containers
Dart 3 compatible 👍 38
Maintenance Status: Average
Fancy Containers Flutter Package
live_background
Dart 3 compatible 👍 36
Maintenance Status: Average
Provide nice moving particle bokeh effect wall paper on your background.
flutter_opengl
Dart 3 compatible 👍 15
Maintenance Status: Average
Flutter plugin to bind a Texture widget to an OpenGL ES context. Many ShaderToy shaders can be used
animated_background
Dart 3 compatible 👍 286
Maintenance Status: Poor
Animated Backgrounds for Flutter. Easily extended to paint whatever you want on the canvas.
foil
Dart 3 compatible 👍 108
Maintenance Status: Poor
Wrap a widget with Foil, providing a rainbow shimmer that twinkles as the accelerometer moves as well as tons of neat gradient features.
flutter_weather_bg_null_safety
Dart 3 compatible 👍 73
Maintenance Status: Poor
Provide a variety of weather background animation effects, covering 15 weather types, including sunny,rain,snow...
shader
Dart 3 compatible 👍 62
Maintenance Status: Poor
Command-line application for compiling GLSL shaders into Flutter-compatible SPR-V byte code.
scaffold_gradient_background
Dart 3 compatible 👍 61
Maintenance Status: Poor
A widget that works like a scaffold, except that you can set a gradient as background.
parallax_effect
Dart 3 compatible 👍 40
Maintenance Status: Poor
Parallax effect animations for all platforms.
glopos
Dart 3 compatible 👍 37
Maintenance Status: Poor
View elements in a global scene through local windows. Create effects which visually connect separate UI elements.
awesome_aurora_gradient
Dart 3 compatible 👍 37
Maintenance Status: Poor
A very colourful extension to create awesome Aurora gradients.
eeffects
Dart 3 compatible 👍 36
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter package containing a variety of simple 2D effects. Point Lights, Light Beams, fire and Lightning Bolts so far.
umbra_cli
Dart 3 compatible 👍 35
Maintenance Status: Poor
Umbra CLI allows Flutter developers to create their own shaders and compile them to strongly typed dart files.
aurora
Dart 3 compatible 👍 30
Maintenance Status: Poor
Widget to easily create aurora gradient backgrounds for your flutter app
gradient_widgets
👍 87
Maintenance Status: Poor
A minimal set of Flutter widgets encased with beautiful gradients.
flutter_weather_bg
👍 56
Maintenance Status: Poor
Provide a variety of weather background animation effects, covering 15 weather types, including sunny,rain,snow...
water_drop
👍 36
Maintenance Status: Poor
A package for creating water drops on top of your widgets.