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Top Flutter Sensors packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Mobile devices are packed with hardware sensors like accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and barometers. Accessing these allows for motion-based gaming, compasses, and fitness tracking.
Best Practices for Hardware Sensors
- Stream Management: Sensor packages expose data as high-frequency Dart
Streams. Always remember tocancel()your stream subscriptions in thedispose()method of your widget to prevent massive battery drain. - Sampling Rates: Do not request sensor data faster than your UI can render it. If a package allows it, set a reasonable sampling rate (e.g.,
SensorInterval.ui) to optimize CPU usage. - Data Smoothing: Raw sensor data is notoriously noisy. Apply a low-pass filter or moving average algorithm to the incoming data stream to prevent your UI from jittering wildly.
The complete list of Flutter packages for Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Magnetometer, and other hardware sensors is provided below.
sensors_plus
👍 1.02K ⬇️ 431.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin for accessing accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors.
flutter_compass
👍 190 ⬇️ 74.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter compass. The heading varies from 0-360, 0 being north.
native_device_orientation
👍 146 ⬇️ 113.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin for reading device's native orientation, either from UI orientation or from sensors
parallax_sensors_bg
👍 115 ⬇️ 410
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter package to simplify giving a parallax effect in the background of a page that responds to a corresponding sensor detection.
smooth_compass
👍 64 ⬇️ 143
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
smooth compass with animated rotation and custom widgets support for both(android and ios)
motion_sensors
👍 49 ⬇️ 730
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin for accessing the Android and iOS accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and orientation sensors.
flutter_sensors
👍 43 ⬇️ 262
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter plugin to access the available sensors of the device.
ir_sensor_plugin
👍 34 ⬇️ 184
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
This plugin allows Flutter applications to use the infrared sensor on Android starting with API 19
all_sensors
👍 31 ⬇️ 242
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin to retreive Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity sensor's data.
light
👍 26 ⬇️ 5.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Plugin for collecting data from the ambient light sensor on Android and iOS.
environment_sensors
👍 27 ⬇️ 266
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter plugin for reading ambient temperature,relative humidity, ambient light, and barometric pressure from a device.
xl
👍 25 ⬇️ 17
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Implement accelerometer and pointer or touch fueled parallax animations with a bespoke XL layering paradigm. Gyroscope supported.
carp_mobile_sensing
👍 22 ⬇️ 895
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Mobile Sensing Framework for Flutter. A software framework for collecting sensor data from the phone and attached wearable devices via probes. Can be extended.
ambient_light
👍 21 ⬇️ 738
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A powerful plugin to access ambient light sensor data on Android, iOS and macOS
compassx
👍 20 ⬇️ 1.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter compass plugin offering true heading, accuracy, and calibration needs.
esense_flutter
👍 3 ⬇️ 135
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
The eSense Flutter Plugin supporting the eSense earable computing devices from Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge.
movisens_flutter
👍 3 ⬇️ 104
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter plugin for Movisens devices, which connects to the device and listens for incoming data.
max30101
👍 2 ⬇️ 19
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Package which integrates with the max30101 sensor, producing illustrative heart rate and O2 saturation readings
carp_esense_package
👍 1 ⬇️ 255
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
The CARP eSense sampling package. Samples sensor and device events from the eSense ear plug device.
carp_movisens_package
👍 0 ⬇️ 165
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
CARP Movisens sampling package. Samples movement, activity, HRV, MET-level, and ECG for the Movisens Move4 and EcgMove4 devices
aeyrium_sensor
👍 15 ⬇️ 67
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter sensor plugin which provide easy access to the Pitch and Roll on Android and iOS devices.
enviro_sensors
👍 8 ⬇️ 16
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin for accessing enviroment sensors. unfortunately, iOS is not yet supported.
flutter_sensor_compass
👍 3 ⬇️ 17
Maintenance Status: Poor
A plugin to get the orientation of the device (in degrees) relative to the magnetic north.