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Top Flutter Emoji and Rich Text packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Emojis and Rich Text allow you to display highly formatted strings—combining bold text, links, mentions, and colorful emojis—within a single widget.
Best Practices for Rich Text
- TextSpans: Do not place multiple
Textwidgets in aRowto simulate formatting. Always useRichTextwith nestedTextSpanelements. This ensures proper text wrapping across multiple lines. - Clickable Links: Use
WidgetSpanor specialized Rich Text packages to embed clickable URLs or@mentionsdirectly inside a paragraph of text, triggering a deep link or URL launcher when tapped. - Emoji Rendering: Emojis render differently depending on the operating system. If visual consistency is critical to your brand, use an Emoji font package to force a specific style (like Apple or JoyPixels emojis) across all devices.
The complete list of Emoji Parsers, Rich Text Builders, and Text Formatting packages for Flutter is provided below.
flutter_linkify
👍 774 ⬇️ 218K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Turns text URLs and emails into clickable inline links in text for Flutter.
emoji_picker_flutter
👍 647 ⬇️ 126.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter package that provides an Emoji picker widget with 1500+ emojis in 8 categories.
styled_text
👍 477 ⬇️ 99.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Text widget with formatted text using tags. Makes it easier to use formatted text in multilingual applications.
extended_text
👍 307 ⬇️ 243.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Extended official text to build special text like inline image or @somebody quickly,it also support custom background,custom over flow,gradient and custom selection toolbar and handles.
unicode
👍 9 ⬇️ 545.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Unicode characters library auto generated from http://www.unicode.org.
extended_text_field
👍 304 ⬇️ 30.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Extended official text field to build special text like inline image, @somebody, custom background etc quickly.It also support to build custom seleciton toolbar and handles.
easy_rich_text
👍 249 ⬇️ 31.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
The EasyRichText widget provides an easy way to use RichText. You do not have to split the string manually.
flutter_emoji
👍 197 ⬇️ 28.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A light-weight Emoji package for Flutter with all up-to-date emojis, made with love and just enjoy!
animated_emoji
👍 193 ⬇️ 2.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Show beautiful, customizable animated emojis using Noto Animated Emoji
detectable_text_field
👍 165 ⬇️ 2.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
TextField with detection features. You can detect hashtags, at sign, url or anything you want. Helps you develop Twitter like app. Refinement of hashtagable
highlight_text
👍 133 ⬇️ 28.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
With this package you can highlight words and create specific styles and actions.
mailto
👍 138 ⬇️ 16.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Simple Dart package for creating mailto links in your Flutter apps
emojis
👍 108 ⬇️ 9.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Emojis for Dart! This package contain all unicode 13.0 emojis (2020)!
rich_text_controller
👍 102 ⬇️ 13.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
An extended text editing controller that supports different inline styles for custom regex patterns.
typeset
👍 108 ⬇️ 1.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Whatsapp like text styling for you! -- Bold, Italic, Underline and more -- Drive your text style through Backend!
flutter_social_textfield
👍 97 ⬇️ 1.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
TextEditingController and RichText / TextSpan builder with hashtag, url and mention detection with Regular Expressions. Also with tap support.
simple_rich_text
👍 87 ⬇️ 5.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Display a Dart string in Flutter using simple rich text characters.
selectable_autolink_text
👍 83 ⬇️ 8.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Generate inline links that can be selected and tapped in text for Flutter.
linkwell
👍 82 ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
LinkWell is Text Plugin that detects URLs and Emails in a String and when tapped opens in users browsers,
pretty_diff_text
👍 66 ⬇️ 14.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
PrettyDiffText is wrapper of RichText which shows differences between two texts visually. It uses Google's diff-match-patch library by default.
rich_text_view
👍 65 ⬇️ 641
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple yet powerful rich text view that supports mention, hashtag, email, url and see more.
demoji
👍 65 ⬇️ 84
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A dart emoji library with over 1500+ emojis
mongol
👍 60 ⬇️ 696
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter widget package for displaying and editing vertical Mongolian text.
flutter_decorated_text
👍 59 ⬇️ 352
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A widget to style and interact with parts of a text based on rules. Match words, phrases, or patterns and apply custom styles or actions.
text_style_editor
👍 57 ⬇️ 44
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
TextSyleEditor is a flutter widget that help you to edit a text style dynamically.
textf
👍 56 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Inline Markdown-like formatting for Flutter - as drop-in replacements for `Text` and `TextEditingController`. Bold, italic, code, [URL links](.), highlights, super/subscript.
smart_textfield
👍 52 ⬇️ 28
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
TextField that can extract relevant information from the raw text input.
link_text
👍 49 ⬇️ 3.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Easy to use text widget for Flutter apps, which converts inlined URLs into clickable links. Allows custom styling.
flutter_emoji_gif_picker
👍 47 ⬇️ 74
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
The same emoji-gif picker as whatsapp. Takes the same size as your keyboard(Mobile).
rich_readmore
👍 45 ⬇️ 1.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A widget that displays text with an option to show more or show less based on the provided settings.
remove_emoji
👍 41 ⬇️ 5.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Dart and flutter package accurately replace/remove emojis in text
scroll_highlight_text
👍 43 ⬇️ 164
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter package for highlighting and scrolling through text.
parsed_readmore
👍 42 ⬇️ 316
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter text widget which is expandable and can automatically parse urls present in the text it into clickable links.
emoji_flag_converter
👍 18 ⬇️ 27.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A dart library for converting country codes to emoji flags.
contentful_rich_text
👍 29 ⬇️ 13.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Rich Text renderer that parses Contentful Rich Text JSON object and returns a renderable Flutter widget tree
dart_emoji
👍 37 ⬇️ 28
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A light-weight Emoji 📦 for Dart & Flutter with all up-to-date emojis written in pure Dart 😄 . Made from 💯% ☕ with ❤️!
super_rich_text
👍 36 ⬇️ 822
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
The easiest way to style custom text snippets by creating your own bookmarks with links and functions.
custom_rich_text
👍 36 ⬇️ 247
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A custom rich text package that allow highlights and link reference to text.
linkable
👍 34 ⬇️ 1.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter widget to add links to your text. Linkable widget is a wrapper over RichText which allows you to render links that can be clicked to redirect to the URL.
expandable_richtext
👍 35 ⬇️ 378
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A text widget which you can use to initially only show a defined number of lines of a probably long text. it also support clickable @mention,
mentionable_text_field
👍 35 ⬇️ 105
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter plugin to create customizable text field that has a mentionable feature. The way matching users are displayed and picked is decorrelated from the Widget itself, so that you will be able to chose the way you will do.
mention_tag_text_field
👍 31 ⬇️ 1.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter package which adds the mention or tag capabilities to existing TextField or TextFormField widget in Flutter.
keyboard_emoji_picker
👍 31 ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin for picking emojis using device's keyboard.
twemoji
👍 31 ⬇️ 354
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Twitter Emojis for Flutter, this package supports svg and png 72x72 emojis
emoji_regex
👍 13 ⬇️ 22K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
emoji-regex offers a regular expression to match all emoji symbols and sequences (including textual representations of emoji) as per the Unicode Standard.
emoji_selector
👍 29 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
An Emoji picker component for Flutter with the latest set of emojis. The current version supports Emoji version 15.
linkify_text
👍 22 ⬇️ 111
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
LinkifyText is a Text widget that highlight all the links in the text. It further navigates user to the link using browser on tapping on highlighted link.
utils_rinch_text
👍 9 ⬇️ 14
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
This method returns a list of TextSpan ideal for formatting long text this implementation supports the following tags, see example.
flutter_richtext_composer
👍 7 ⬇️ 280
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package for composing rich text in a i18n friendly way
text_link
👍 6 ⬇️ 57
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
This Flutter package simplifies text rendering with embedded URLs, enabling users to tap on any URL within the text to open the link.
quick_text
👍 6 ⬇️ 35
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for simplified text formatting with markdown-like syntax.
quill_delta
👍 34 ⬇️ 3.6K
Maintenance Status: Poor
Simple and expressive format for describing rich-text content created for Quill.js editor. This package is unofficial port to Dart from JavaScript.
textstyle_extensions
👍 22 ⬇️ 1.3K
Maintenance Status: Poor
Syntactic sugar for easily modifying TextStyles. Quickly create textStyle variants like .bold, .italic or .size().
rich_input
👍 18 ⬇️ 18
Maintenance Status: Poor
Rich input box, implement @someone and subject with color highlighting.
span_builder
👍 18 ⬇️ 9
Maintenance Status: Poor
Facilitates creation of spans from plain text and provides automated disposal of GestureRecognizers
notus
👍 9 ⬇️ 304
Maintenance Status: Poor
Platform-agnostic rich text document model based on Delta format and used in Zefyr editor.