Flutter Gems
Flutter Gems is a curated list of 7100+ useful Dart & Flutter packages that are categorized based on functionality.
Top Flutter Search Bar, Search APIs and Utilities packages
Last updated: March 18, 2026
The search bar or search box component is a search field that allows the user to enter a search query. This component can also be part of the App Bar and includes a submit button or search icon that executes the search query. Once executed builtin algorithm can be executed or a call can be made to a 3rd party Search API that provides the matching results.
The complete list of Dart and Flutter packages that can help you build Search Bar, Search Box or App Bar Search, and provide Search APIs and utilities for your Flutter app is provided below.
anim_search_bar
👍 410 ⬇️ 829
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter package that has an animated search bar with loads of customization
searchable_listview
👍 263 ⬇️ 6.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A new easy way to filter listview with simple implementation with possibilty to customize search field and empty widget
substring_highlight
👍 200 ⬇️ 60.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Highlight Flutter text at the character-level for simple and customizable search term highlighting.
algolia
👍 228 ⬇️ 26.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Algolia is a pure dart SDK, wrapped around Algolia REST API for easy implementation for your Flutter or Dart projects.
search_page
👍 197 ⬇️ 507
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Fast and easy way to build a custom search experience in you app
searchbar_animation
👍 144 ⬇️ 246
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Searchbar Animation provides the horizontal slide animation to a searchbar and it is fully customizable.
rate_limiter
👍 97 ⬇️ 41.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A pure dart package to apply useful rate limiting strategies on regular functions.
fuzzy
👍 108 ⬇️ 27K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Fuzzy search in Dart. Initially a code conversion, subset of Fuse.js.
animation_search_bar
👍 105 ⬇️ 226
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Customizable Animated Search Bar. It is suitable for the AppBar.
text_search
👍 31 ⬇️ 68.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Simple in-memory fuzzy text searching library.
search_app_bar_page
👍 93 ⬇️ 890
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A search page built for minimal work and good performance. Enjoy.
input_history_text_field
👍 80 ⬇️ 660
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A input_history_text_field widget is automatically saved and suggest as you type.
animated_search_bar
👍 74 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Beautiful and Simple SearchBar widget with animation transition. It can be fully customized with label, labelStyle, searchDecoration, etc. It also maintains onChange state.
multiple_search_selection
👍 68 ⬇️ 1.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A highly customizable multiple selection widget with fuzzy search functionality.
meilisearch
👍 65 ⬇️ 4.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Meilisearch Dart is the Meilisearch API client for Dart and Flutter developers.
elastic_client
👍 43 ⬇️ 26K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Dart bindings for ElasticSearch HTTP API. ElasticSearch is a full-text search engine based on Lucene.
typesense
👍 60 ⬇️ 5.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Dart client library for accessing the HTTP API of Typesense search engine.
algoliasearch
👍 34 ⬇️ 30.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Dart package for Algolia. Enables seamless integration for instant search, typo tolerance & user insights, and more, in Dart/Flutter apps.
app_bar_with_search_switch
👍 58 ⬇️ 567
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
An extension for AppBar which can switch it into search field.
algolia_helper_flutter
👍 45 ⬇️ 10K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Patterns and APIs to implement advanced search features with Algolia for Flutter
expandable_search_bar
👍 48 ⬇️ 95
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A beautiful animated search bar for flutter. You can customize it as mush as you want.
scroll_highlight_text
👍 43 ⬇️ 241
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter package for highlighting and scrolling through text.
anim_search_app_bar
👍 37 ⬇️ 63
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter package that has an animated search bar with loads of customization
algolia_client_search
👍 6 ⬇️ 31.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A sub-package of the AlgoliaSearch library, offering search-specific functionalities for enhanced search and discovery in Dart/Flutter apps.
ios_search_appbar
👍 35 ⬇️ 121
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
iOS-style collapsible app bar with beautifully animated search bar
advanced_search
👍 33 ⬇️ 136
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Text Field with Advanced Search features that gives you search results from a predefined set as per your search settings
algolia_client_insights
👍 2 ⬇️ 31.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A sub-package of the AlgoliaSearch library, offering insights-specific functionalities for enhanced search and discovery in Dart/Flutter apps.
fsearch
👍 31 ⬇️ 64
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
To help developers build the most beautiful search bar.
flappy_search_bar_ns
👍 29 ⬇️ 785
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A SearchBar widget automatizing most of your asynchronous searchs cases.
woozy_search
👍 24 ⬇️ 878
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A super simple and lightweight client-side fuzzy-search library based on Levenshtein distance.
select_searchable_list
👍 24 ⬇️ 193
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A very useful Flutter widget for searching through single or multiple options from a drop-down list.
huawei_site
👍 13 ⬇️ 4
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Huawei Site Kit plugin for Flutter. With Huawei Site Kit, your app can provide users with convenient and secure access to diverse, place-related services.
smart_search_list
👍 12 ⬇️ 283
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Searchable list and grid widget for Flutter. Offline filtering, async loading, pagination, fuzzy search, grouped lists and grids, and multi-select. Zero dependencies.
material_floating_search_bar
👍 1.3K ⬇️ 2K
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter implementation of an expandable and animated floating search bar, also known as persistent search.
material_floating_search_bar_2
👍 323 ⬇️ 2.3K
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter implementation of an expandable and animated floating search bar, also known as persistent search.
search_widget
👍 146 ⬇️ 33
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package which provides a Search Widget for selecting an option from a data list.
flutter_search_bar
👍 121 ⬇️ 505
Maintenance Status: Poor
A (mostly) automatic search bar inside an AppBar for flutter
easy_search
👍 72 ⬇️ 36
Maintenance Status: Poor
A highly customizable search component to accelerate your development.
dynamic_text_highlighting
👍 55 ⬇️ 170
Maintenance Status: Poor
Dynamic Text Highlighting (DTH) is a Flutter package written in pure Dart, ideal for highlighting search results.
custom_searchable_dropdown
👍 52 ⬇️ 527
Maintenance Status: Poor
A FLutter Package by devNation shaizeeabbas.sa@gmail.com.
paginated_search_bar
👍 52 ⬇️ 71
Maintenance Status: Poor
A search bar library that let's you search for items and paginate them in a results list.
search_app_bar
👍 45 ⬇️ 10
Maintenance Status: Poor
An animated SearchAppBar library that makes it easy to control the search for any type of data in a list of elements.
appbar_textfield
👍 35 ⬇️ 5
Maintenance Status: Poor
A flutter AppBar widget with a switchable textfield mainly used for search
simple_search_bar
👍 13 ⬇️ 148
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple yet functional flutter search bar. It's an AppBar that You can turn on a SearchBar. You could make that clicking on any element You want using the Controller Stream.