Flutter Gems
Flutter Gems is a curated list of 7250+ useful Dart & Flutter packages that are categorized based on functionality.
Top Flutter Search Bar, Search APIs and Utilities packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Search is often the most used feature in an app. Providing a robust, fast, and forgiving search experience is vital for user retention.
Best Practices for Search
- Debouncing Inputs: Never make an API request for every single keystroke. Implement a debounce utility (e.g., waiting 300ms after the user stops typing) before firing the backend request to save massive server costs.
- Empty States and Recents: When the user taps the search bar but hasn't typed anything yet, display their "Recent Searches" or "Trending" items rather than a blank screen.
- Fuzzy Search: If executing search locally over a list of Dart objects, use a fuzzy search algorithm so users can still find results even if they misspell a word slightly.
The complete list of Search Bars, Fuzzy Search utilities, and Algolia integrations for Flutter is provided below.
anim_search_bar
👍 410 ⬇️ 854
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter package that has an animated search bar with loads of customization
searchable_listview
👍 264 ⬇️ 8.9K
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 ⬇️ 58.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Highlight Flutter text at the character-level for simple and customizable search term highlighting.
algolia
👍 228 ⬇️ 22.4K
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 ⬇️ 642
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Fast and easy way to build a custom search experience in you app
rate_limiter
👍 97 ⬇️ 61.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A pure dart package to apply useful rate limiting strategies on regular functions.
searchbar_animation
👍 145 ⬇️ 169
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Searchbar Animation provides the horizontal slide animation to a searchbar and it is fully customizable.
fuzzy
👍 108 ⬇️ 41.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Fuzzy search in Dart. Initially a code conversion, subset of Fuse.js.
animation_search_bar
👍 105 ⬇️ 217
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Customizable Animated Search Bar. It is suitable for the AppBar.
text_search
👍 31 ⬇️ 79.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Simple in-memory fuzzy text searching library.
search_app_bar_page
👍 93 ⬇️ 288
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A search page built for minimal work and good performance. Enjoy.
input_history_text_field
👍 80 ⬇️ 858
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A input_history_text_field widget is automatically saved and suggest as you type.
animated_search_bar
👍 75 ⬇️ 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
👍 70 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A highly customizable multiple selection widget with fuzzy search functionality.
meilisearch
👍 65 ⬇️ 3.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Meilisearch Dart is the Meilisearch API client for Dart and Flutter developers.
typesense
👍 61 ⬇️ 5.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Dart client library for accessing the HTTP API of Typesense search engine.
algoliasearch
👍 35 ⬇️ 29.8K
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 ⬇️ 484
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
An extension for AppBar which can switch it into search field.
algolia_helper_flutter
👍 45 ⬇️ 10.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Patterns and APIs to implement advanced search features with Algolia for Flutter
expandable_search_bar
👍 48 ⬇️ 83
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A beautiful animated search bar for flutter. You can customize it as mush as you want.
elastic_client
👍 43 ⬇️ 5.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Dart bindings for ElasticSearch HTTP API. ElasticSearch is a full-text search engine based on Lucene.
scroll_highlight_text
👍 43 ⬇️ 164
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter package for highlighting and scrolling through text.
anim_search_app_bar
👍 37 ⬇️ 60
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter package that has an animated search bar with loads of customization
ios_search_appbar
👍 35 ⬇️ 59
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
iOS-style collapsible app bar with beautifully animated search bar
advanced_search
👍 33 ⬇️ 90
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
fsearch
👍 31 ⬇️ 60
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
To help developers build the most beautiful search bar.
algolia_client_search
👍 6 ⬇️ 30.3K
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.
flappy_search_bar_ns
👍 29 ⬇️ 366
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A SearchBar widget automatizing most of your asynchronous searchs cases.
algolia_client_insights
👍 2 ⬇️ 30.6K
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.
woozy_search
👍 24 ⬇️ 671
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A super simple and lightweight client-side fuzzy-search library based on Levenshtein distance.
select_searchable_list
👍 24 ⬇️ 120
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A very useful Flutter widget for searching through single or multiple options from a drop-down list.
smart_search_list
👍 13 ⬇️ 12
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.
huawei_site
👍 13 ⬇️ 7
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.
material_floating_search_bar
👍 1.3K ⬇️ 1.7K
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 ⬇️ 1.7K
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter implementation of an expandable and animated floating search bar, also known as persistent search.
search_widget
👍 146 ⬇️ 27
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package which provides a Search Widget for selecting an option from a data list.
flutter_search_bar
👍 121 ⬇️ 1.7K
Maintenance Status: Poor
A (mostly) automatic search bar inside an AppBar for flutter
easy_search
👍 72 ⬇️ 37
Maintenance Status: Poor
A highly customizable search component to accelerate your development.
dynamic_text_highlighting
👍 55 ⬇️ 122
Maintenance Status: Poor
Dynamic Text Highlighting (DTH) is a Flutter package written in pure Dart, ideal for highlighting search results.
custom_searchable_dropdown
👍 52 ⬇️ 609
Maintenance Status: Poor
A FLutter Package by devNation shaizeeabbas.sa@gmail.com.
paginated_search_bar
👍 52 ⬇️ 30
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 ⬇️ 7
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 ⬇️ 6
Maintenance Status: Poor
A flutter AppBar widget with a switchable textfield mainly used for search
simple_search_bar
👍 13 ⬇️ 47
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.