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Top Flutter Placeholder packages
Last updated: April 1, 2026
A placeholder is an image or effect that is displayed while the network image or text is loading. It can be a image with shimmering animation, an image with a solid background color or an image generated from a Blurhash string.
The complete list of Flutter packages that can help you add Blurhash Image, Shimmering Effect, Skeleton Text or other customizable Image Placeholders in your Flutter app is provided below.
shimmer
👍 5.41K ⬇️ 1.1M
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A package provides an easy way to add shimmer effect in Flutter project
skeletonizer
👍 2.25K ⬇️ 359.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Converts already built widgets into skeleton loaders with no extra effort.
flutter_blurhash
👍 1.7K ⬇️ 122.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Compact representation of placeholder for an image. Encode a blurry image under 30 characters for instant display like used by Medium
transparent_image
👍 497 ⬇️ 122.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A transparent image in Dart code, represented as a Uint8List.
redacted
👍 559 ⬇️ 1.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A package that automatically generate a loading widget from your own widget.
shimmer_animation
👍 513 ⬇️ 14.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This shimmer animation widget can help you bring simple yet beautiful skeleton loaders to your project with ease.
skeleton_text
👍 349 ⬇️ 20.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A package that provides an easy way to add skeleton text loading animation in Flutter project. This project is a part of 101Loop community.
random_string
👍 202 ⬇️ 106.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Simple library for generating random ascii strings by default using Random from 'dart:math'.
card_loading
👍 272 ⬇️ 2.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package to create easy create loading card between two colors
skeleton_loader
👍 235 ⬇️ 34
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter Package which provides a fully customizable loading skeleton for your app,
fade_shimmer
👍 223 ⬇️ 6.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A fade shimmer library to implement loading effects like the latest Facebook loading skeleton UI with smooth fade transitions.
fancy_shimmer_image
👍 217 ⬇️ 2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Package for easy use of images that are automatically cacheable and have a beautiful on the fly (but it can be configured) shimmer effect while loading
flutter_shimmer
👍 206 ⬇️ 423
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
it creating Shimmer effect that indicate a loading status, so instead of using ProgressBar or usual loader use Shimmer for a better design and user interface.
blurhash_dart
👍 131 ⬇️ 59.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A pure dart implementation of the BlurHash algorithm. This package provides both an encoder and a decoder, as well as some utility extensions.
blurhash_ffi
👍 105 ⬇️ 3.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A compact, fast and easy to use blurry image placeholder generator for Flutter using native ffi bindings.
flutter_lorem
👍 82 ⬇️ 14.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Generates random sentences and paragraphs (similar to "lorem ipsum" generators).
animated_loading_border
👍 88 ⬇️ 1.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A package that gives us a modern way to show animated border as a placeholder while loading our widget with easy customization and ready to use.
blurhash
👍 79 ⬇️ 2.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A very compact representation of a placeholder for an image.
animated_shimmer
👍 67 ⬇️ 293
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple & lightweight widget to display a animated shimmer effect.
flutter_placeholder_textlines
👍 52 ⬇️ 167
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple plugin to generate placeholder lines that emulates text in a UI, useful for displaying placeholder content while loading or empty items
flutter_skeleton_ui
👍 42 ⬇️ 8.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for building custom skeleton widgets to mimic the page's layout while loading.
loader_skeleton
👍 41 ⬇️ 49
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Facebook & Twitter Like Card Loading Shimmer Skeleton Library.
better_skeleton
👍 28 ⬇️ 5.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter package to make better loading times using skeleton.
fast_blurhash
👍 33 ⬇️ 45
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A high-performance Dart FFI package for decoding BlurHash, leveraging Rust for faster processing.
custom_cached_image
👍 31 ⬇️ 186
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter package for displaying cached network images with a shimmer loading effect.
image_blur
👍 21 ⬇️ 71
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This Flutter package enables adding shimmer and blur effects to images. Apply these effects in circular and rectangular shapes, for both local and online images.
flutter_faker_plus
👍 8 ⬇️ 45
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Generate random fake data for user profiles, e-commerce products, and geolocations etc.
app_shimmer
👍 5 ⬇️ 95
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A customizable Flutter shimmer loading package with pre-built widgets for ListTiles, ListViews, Grids, and custom containers. Easy to use and highly customizable.
skeletons
👍 342 ⬇️ 3K
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package for building custom skeleton widgets to mimic the page's layout while loading.
empty_widget
👍 70 ⬇️ 233
Maintenance Status: Poor
Custom_Empty widget is flutter custom widget which is designed to notify user about some event.
skeleton_animation
👍 33 ⬇️ 47
Maintenance Status: Poor
Display skeleton animations in your app. It works on android, iOS and the web.
flutter_skeleton
👍 33 ⬇️ 6
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter skeleton screen for Android and iOS. Support List, Card and Card-List style. Support light and dark theme.
pk_skeleton
👍 20 ⬇️ 19
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Facebook & Twitter Like Card Loading Shimmer Skeleton Library.
lipsum
👍 17 ⬇️ 19
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple lorem ipsum text generator. Based off of Andres Araujo's lorem-dart plugin.