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Top Flutter File, Folder and Path Utilities packages

Last updated: November 27, 2023

The complete list of Dart and Flutter packages that provide File, Folder, Location & Path utilities for your Flutter app is provided below.


path_provider
Dart 3 compatible 👍 4.29K
Maintenance Status: Good

Flutter plugin for getting commonly used locations on host platform file systems, such as the temp and app data directories.

path
Dart 3 compatible 👍 1.27K
Maintenance Status: Good

A string-based path manipulation library. All of the path operations you know and love, with solid support for Windows, POSIX (Linux and Mac OS X), and the web.

open_file
Dart 3 compatible 👍 810
Maintenance Status: Good

A plug-in that can call native APP to open files with string result in flutter, support iOS(UTI) / android(intent) / PC(ffi) / web(dart:html)

file_saver
Dart 3 compatible 👍 269
Maintenance Status: Good

This package will help you save file with a single method on any platform including macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Web, Linux.

open_filex
Dart 3 compatible 👍 242
Maintenance Status: Good

A plug-in that can call native APP to open files with string result in flutter, support iOS(UTI) / android(intent) / PC(ffi) / web(dart:html)

file
Dart 3 compatible 👍 233
Maintenance Status: Good

A pluggable, mockable file system abstraction for Dart. Supports local file system access, as well as in-memory file systems, record-replay file systems, and chroot file systems.

watcher
Dart 3 compatible 👍 167
Maintenance Status: Good

A file system watcher. It monitors changes to contents of directories and sends notifications when files have been added, removed, or modified.

background_downloader
Dart 3 compatible 👍 162
Maintenance Status: Good

A multi-platform background file downloader and uploader. Define the task, enqueue and monitor progress

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file_manager
Dart 3 compatible 👍 125
Maintenance Status: Good

FileManager is a wonderful widget that allows you to manage files and folders, pick files and folders, and do a lot more. Designed to feel like part of the Flutter framework.

flutter_file_downloader
Dart 3 compatible 👍 81
Maintenance Status: Good

A simple flutter plugin that downloads any file type to downloads directory

download
Dart 3 compatible 👍 56
Maintenance Status: Good

Cross-Platform file downloader for Dart and Flutter projects.

open_file_plus
Dart 3 compatible 👍 55
Maintenance Status: Good

A plug-in that can call native APP to open files with string result in flutter, support iOS(UTI) / android(intent) / PC(ffi) / web(dart:html)

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flutter_download_manager
Dart 3 compatible 👍 50
Maintenance Status: Good

Flutter Download Manager is a Cross-Platform file downloader with resumeable, parallel and batch Download support. Also be notified of download status and progress updates

shared_storage
Dart 3 compatible 👍 49
Maintenance Status: Good

Flutter plugin to work with external storage and privacy-friendly APIs.

open_document
Dart 3 compatible 👍 40
Maintenance Status: Good

OpenDocument generate a local folder, for file and document storage, also can open pdf, xlsx, docs, ppt and zip files. You can also locate your files by implementing MyFilesScreen you can change folder styles and colors using StyleMyFile

media_store_plus
Dart 3 compatible 👍 37
Maintenance Status: Good

To use Android MediaStore API in Flutter, It supports both read & write operation in every android version through flutter.

document_file_save_plus
Dart 3 compatible 👍 33
Maintenance Status: Good

Save bytes data into Download folder (Android), or show save dialog (iOS).

flutter_file_view
Dart 3 compatible 👍 30
Maintenance Status: Good

A file viewer plugin for Flutter, support local file and network link of Android, iOS.

file_support
Dart 3 compatible 👍 30
Maintenance Status: Good

File Support is plugin very helpful for different kind of file handling operations.Its used create, update, get information about file.

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file_previewer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 29
Maintenance Status: Good

Generate a thumbnail for a file based on the file extension. Uses the native files previewer on iOS.

cr_file_saver
Dart 3 compatible 👍 27
Maintenance Status: Good

Allows to save files on Android and IOS devices and request permission if needed.

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uri_to_file
Dart 3 compatible 👍 22
Maintenance Status: Good

A Flutter plugin for converting supported uri to file. Supports Android & iOS.

file_preview
Dart 3 compatible 👍 22
Maintenance Status: Good

A plug-in that supports flutter preview files

folder_file_saver
Dart 3 compatible 👍 20
Maintenance Status: Good

Flutter plugin for save file to Folder extenison of your_app. resize image downloaded. create folder by extension. require permission and open setting device.

jsaver
Dart 3 compatible 👍 6
Maintenance Status: Good

Just An Amazing File Saver Plugin That Save Files To User Choice Directory On Android , Web , Linux & Windows.

name_plus
Dart 3 compatible 👍 1
Maintenance Status: Good

Automatically increment File & Directory name and create.

external_path
Dart 3 compatible 👍 101
Maintenance Status: Average

A flutter plugin to get internal, external storage and external public directory path.

open_file_safe
Dart 3 compatible 👍 54
Maintenance Status: Average

A plug-in that can call native APP to open files with string result in flutter, support iOS(UTI) / android(intent) / PC(ffi) / web(dart:html)

better_open_file
Dart 3 compatible 👍 35
Maintenance Status: Average

This is a fork from a plug-in that can call native APP to open files with string result in flutter, support iOS(UTI) / android(intent) / PC(ffi) / web(dart:html)

lecle_downloads_path_provider
Dart 3 compatible 👍 24
Maintenance Status: Average

A Flutter project to get the downloads folder absolute path from Android and iOS device.

jopen
Dart 3 compatible 👍 4
Maintenance Status: Average

JOpen is a Plugin that allows you to open any files in Android, JOpen provides a way to open files by file path.

flutter_filereader
Dart 3 compatible 👍 84
Maintenance Status: Poor

A local file view widget,Support a variety of file types, such as Doc Eexcl PPT TXT and so on,Android is implemented by Tencent X5,iOS is implemented by WKWebView

downloads_path_provider_28
Dart 3 compatible 👍 46
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter plugin to get the download directory for Android modified for sdk version 28+.

android_path_provider
Dart 3 compatible 👍 39
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter plugin for getting Android directories. (Downloads, Movies, Pictures...)

file_sizes
Dart 3 compatible 👍 25
Maintenance Status: Poor

Get the Human readable size of the file. It is purely written in dart and support both number and string as parameters.

downloads_path_provider
👍 66
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter plugin to get the download directory for Android.

storage_path
👍 53
Maintenance Status: Poor

A flutter plugin to get image, audio, video and files path.

flutter_absolute_path
👍 37
Maintenance Status: Poor

A flutter plugin that finds the absolute path of a file in iOS or Android devices.

path_provider_ex
👍 25
Maintenance Status: Poor

App files directory, root storage, and available space for ext storage and SD card on Android