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Top Flutter Search Bar, Search APIs and Utilities packages

Last updated: December 4, 2024

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.


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searchable_listview
Dart 3 compatible 👍 244
Maintenance Status: Good

A new easy way to filter listview with simple implementation with possibilty to customize search field and empty widget

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search_app_bar_page
Dart 3 compatible 👍 86
Maintenance Status: Good

A search page built for minimal work and good performance. Enjoy.

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input_history_text_field
Dart 3 compatible 👍 76
Maintenance Status: Good

A input_history_text_field widget is automatically saved and suggest as you type.

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animated_search_bar
Dart 3 compatible 👍 65
Maintenance Status: Good

A Beautiful and Simple SearchBar widget with animation transition. It can be fully customized with label, labelStyle, searchDecoration, etc. It also maintains onChange state.

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multiple_search_selection
Dart 3 compatible 👍 62
Maintenance Status: Good

A highly customizable multiple selection widget with fuzzy search functionality.

meilisearch
Dart 3 compatible 👍 57
Maintenance Status: Good

Meilisearch Dart is the Meilisearch API client for Dart and Flutter developers.

typesense
Dart 3 compatible 👍 54
Maintenance Status: Good

Dart client library for accessing the HTTP API of Typesense search engine.

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app_bar_with_search_switch
Dart 3 compatible 👍 52
Maintenance Status: Good

An extension for AppBar which can switch it into search field.

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advanced_search
Dart 3 compatible 👍 30
Maintenance Status: Good

Text Field with Advanced Search features that gives you search results from a predefined set as per your search settings

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select_searchable_list
Dart 3 compatible 👍 24
Maintenance Status: Good

A very useful Flutter widget for searching through single or multiple options from a drop-down list.

huawei_site
Dart 3 compatible 👍 13
Maintenance 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.

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anim_search_bar
Dart 3 compatible 👍 384
Maintenance Status: Average

A flutter package that has an animated search bar with loads of customization

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material_floating_search_bar_2
Dart 3 compatible 👍 284
Maintenance Status: Average

A Flutter implementation of an expandable and animated floating search bar, also known as persistent search.

algolia
Dart 3 compatible 👍 224
Maintenance Status: Average

Algolia is a pure dart SDK, wrapped around Algolia REST API for easy implementation for your Flutter or Dart projects.

search_page
Dart 3 compatible 👍 194
Maintenance Status: Average

Fast and easy way to build a custom search experience in you app

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animation_search_bar
Dart 3 compatible 👍 100
Maintenance Status: Average

A Customizable Animated Search Bar. It is suitable for the AppBar.

fuzzy
Dart 3 compatible 👍 99
Maintenance Status: Average

Fuzzy search in Dart. Initially a code conversion, subset of Fuse.js.

rate_limiter
Dart 3 compatible 👍 78
Maintenance Status: Average

A pure dart package to apply useful rate limiting strategies on regular functions.

elastic_client
Dart 3 compatible 👍 43
Maintenance Status: Average

Dart bindings for ElasticSearch HTTP API. ElasticSearch is a full-text search engine based on Lucene.

substring_highlight
Dart 3 compatible 👍 187
Maintenance Status: Poor

Highlight Flutter text at the character-level for simple and customizable search term highlighting.

searchbar_animation
Dart 3 compatible 👍 141
Maintenance Status: Poor

Searchbar Animation provides the horizontal slide animation to a searchbar and it is fully customizable.

expandable_search_bar
Dart 3 compatible 👍 41
Maintenance Status: Poor

A beautiful animated search bar for flutter. You can customize it as mush as you want.

anim_search_app_bar
Dart 3 compatible 👍 36
Maintenance Status: Poor

A flutter package that has an animated search bar with loads of customization

fsearch
Dart 3 compatible 👍 30
Maintenance Status: Poor

To help developers build the most beautiful search bar.

flappy_search_bar_ns
Dart 3 compatible 👍 28
Maintenance Status: Poor

A SearchBar widget automatizing most of your asynchronous searchs cases.

woozy_search
Dart 3 compatible 👍 24
Maintenance Status: Poor

A super simple and lightweight client-side fuzzy-search library based on Levenshtein distance.

flutter_search_bar
👍 120
Maintenance Status: Good

A (mostly) automatic search bar inside an AppBar for flutter

algolia_helper_flutter
👍 39
Maintenance Status: Good

Patterns and APIs to implement advanced search features with Algolia for Flutter

material_floating_search_bar
👍 1.3K
Maintenance Status: Poor

A Flutter implementation of an expandable and animated floating search bar, also known as persistent search.

search_widget
👍 144
Maintenance Status: Poor

A Flutter package which provides a Search Widget for selecting an option from a data list.

easy_search
👍 72
Maintenance Status: Poor

A highly customizable search component to accelerate your development.

dynamic_text_highlighting
👍 54
Maintenance Status: Poor

Dynamic Text Highlighting (DTH) is a Flutter package written in pure Dart, ideal for highlighting search results.

paginated_search_bar
👍 53
Maintenance Status: Poor

A search bar library that let's you search for items and paginate them in a results list.

custom_searchable_dropdown
👍 52
Maintenance Status: Poor

Widget allows user to search from a dynamic list of data you can customise the dropdown according to your need, it can also be customised as multiple select or single select.

search_app_bar
👍 46
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
Maintenance Status: Poor

A flutter AppBar widget with a switchable textfield mainly used for search

simple_search_bar
👍 13
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.