Flutter Gems
Flutter Gems is a curated list of 7250+ useful Dart & Flutter packages that are categorized based on functionality.
Top Flutter Layout and Overlay packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Layout overlays, floating panels, and custom Stack alignments allow you to position elements absolutely on the screen, breaking out of the standard linear document flow.
Best Practices for Overlays
- Overlay API vs. Stack: Use the
OverlayAPI when you need a widget to float above everything in the app (like a custom tooltip or global dropdown). Use aStackfor local, component-level overlaps. - Positioning: When using a
Stack, leverage thePositionedwidget to lock elements to specific edges (e.g.,bottom: 16, right: 16). Avoid manual padding math whenever possible. - Cleanup: If you inject an
OverlayEntrydirectly into the navigator's overlay, you are responsible for removing it. Failing to callremove()will result in memory leaks and zombie UI elements stuck on screen.
The complete list of Stack Helpers, Overlay Managers, and Absolute Positioning utilities for Flutter is provided below.
flutter_portal
👍 734 ⬇️ 176.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Evolved Overlay/OverlayEntry - declarative not imperative, intuitive-context, and easy-alignment
resizable_widget
👍 187 ⬇️ 390.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Enables users to resize the internal widgets by dragging. This package contains simple APIs, but if needed, you can customize ResizableWidget flexibly.
multi_split_view
👍 352 ⬇️ 28.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Provides horizontal or vertical multiple split view for Flutter.
align_positioned
👍 269 ⬇️ 12.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Greatly simplifies layouts which are difficult to implement with Columns and Rows, by letting you declaratively position and resize widgets in relation to one another.
draggable_float_widget
👍 114 ⬇️ 188.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
This is a draggable and floating Flutter widget, which can control its visibility through the scrolling event of ScrollView.
dashboard
👍 229 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Dynamic dashboard widget that allows your users to create their own layouts. Resize, move, indirect resize/move, auto re-layout are supported.
dash_bubble
👍 144 ⬇️ 148
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Dash Bubble is a flutter plugin that allows you to create a floating bubble on the screen.
flutter_box_transform
👍 120 ⬇️ 12.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter implementation of box_transform package that provides easy 2D box transform operations with advanced resizing of rect in UI.
render_metrics
👍 121 ⬇️ 295
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Library for getting widget metrics. Uses RenderObject to get the size and position of widgets relative to the screen window, as well as the difference between widgets.
bubble_lens
👍 101 ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter customizable reproduction of the Apple Watch UI animation
flutter_sticky_widgets
👍 91 ⬇️ 852
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Implement Flutter widgets which behave like position sticky in CSS.
split_view
👍 73 ⬇️ 20.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This wedget provides horizontal or vertical split view for flutter.
float_column
👍 83 ⬇️ 6.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Flutter FloatColumn widget for building a vertical column of widgets and text where the text wraps around floated widgets, similar to how CSS float works.
flutter_constraintlayout
👍 86 ⬇️ 1.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A super powerful Stack, build flexible layouts with constraints. Similar to ConstraintLayout for Android and AutoLayout for iOS.
pluto_layout
👍 82 ⬇️ 255
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
PlutoLayout is a Flutter UI package that can configure a menu or tab screen on each side.
indexed
👍 72 ⬇️ 2.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
indexed widget, allow you to order the items inside stack, sothing like z-index
docking
👍 73 ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter layout for placing widgets in docking areas and arrange them into split and tabbed views.
follow_the_leader
👍 36 ⬇️ 46.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Widgets that follow other widgets.
flutter_overlay_apps
👍 71 ⬇️ 48
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Android plugin for displaying flutter widgets over other apps
book_my_seat
👍 69 ⬇️ 39
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
This is a flutter package to create seat booking layout for bus, theatre, aeroplane etc.
flutter_overlay_manager
👍 64 ⬇️ 158
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for managing overlays. It separates your main UI and the overlays. It also solves some problems encountered when using Navigator.
flutter_resizable_container
👍 56 ⬇️ 4.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Add nestable, resizable containers to your Flutter app with ease.
extra_alignments
👍 55 ⬇️ 18
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Additional alignments to help make your layouts more readable (TopLeft, TopRight, etc)
overlay_pop_up
👍 53 ⬇️ 67
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A new Flutter plugin to display pop ups or screens over other apps in Android even when app is closed or killed.
overlayment
👍 49 ⬇️ 1.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Show a dialog, notification, window, or a panel easily. use helping widgets like AutoComplete, Expander(Dropdown).
circular_widgets
👍 50 ⬇️ 99
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Display widgets in a circle.
modals
👍 49 ⬇️ 158
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Modals, a Flutter package to simplify all your overlay needs!
floating_overlay
👍 46 ⬇️ 207
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A widget wrapper that allows a floating widget be dragged and rescaled.
flutter_floating
👍 44 ⬇️ 1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter Permissionless Floating Window, a lightweight, flexible, and fully functional Flutter floating window component.
aligned_tooltip
👍 10 ⬇️ 41.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A multi directional tooltip used to display any content
kanban_board
👍 43 ⬇️ 139
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Customizable & draggable Kanban Board widget for Flutter. Build Trello-like task boards with smooth drag-and-drop and flexible task management.
auto_size_widget
👍 38 ⬇️ 202
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter widget that can resize the child widget by dragging the widget corner.
flutter_boardview
👍 33 ⬇️ 784
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This is a custom Flutter widget that can create a draggable BoardView or also known as a kanban. The view can be reordered with drag and drop.
figma_layout_grid
👍 32 ⬇️ 91
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Visual aid grid system that supports Figma's layout grid features
flutter_scatter
👍 31 ⬇️ 1.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A widget that displays a collection of dispersed and non-overlapping children
flutter_split_view
👍 30 ⬇️ 129
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter widget that automatically splits the screen into two views based on available space. This is based on Navigator 2.0.
draggable_container
👍 28 ⬇️ 102
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Very Smooth Draggable Widget Container. Each children is Draggable, Deletable and Fixable. Support SliverGridDelegate!
page_grid
👍 26 ⬇️ 9
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Easy and flexible grid system for Flutter
layered_image
👍 21 ⬇️ 15
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A new Flutter package project.
flutter_spacer
👍 20 ⬇️ 32
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
spacer is a Dart package for Flutter for easily spacing widgets in terms of percentage of screen width or height.
equal_space
👍 11 ⬇️ 36
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for creating evenly spaced rows and columns.
axis_layout
👍 3 ⬇️ 740
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Horizontal (row) and vertical (column) layout with expand and shrink features.
dancing_tiles
👍 3 ⬇️ 22
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple and lightweight Flutter package to create a grid view with animatable tiles
df_tooltip
👍 2 ⬇️ 19
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Custom tooltip package for Flutter applications.
type_mate
👍 2 ⬇️ 8
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin for system-wide writing assistance with overlay bubbles that provide spell checking, grammar fixing, and other writing tools.
overlay_container
👍 50 ⬇️ 2
Maintenance Status: Poor
A flutter widget which renders its child outside the original widget hierarchy.
faded
👍 47 ⬇️ 33
Maintenance Status: Poor
Client did not pay? Add decreasing opacity to UI components until their app fades away. Set a due date, and no. of days you offer them until the app is fully vanished.
golden_layout
👍 36 ⬇️ 17
Maintenance Status: Poor
A internal window library for Flutter based on http://golden-layout.com/
panels
👍 34 ⬇️ 11
Maintenance Status: Poor
Panels is a flutter package that aims to provide a set of useful desktop UI panels that can move around, dock and tab like we expect in more robust desktop applications.
flutter_cursor
👍 21 ⬇️ 29
Maintenance Status: Poor
Custom cursor support for Flutter (for hovering on web) with widgets