Flutter Gems
Flutter Gems is a curated list of 7250+ useful Dart & Flutter packages that are categorized based on functionality.
Top Flutter Stopwatch, Timer and Countdown packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Stopwatches, timers, and countdowns are essential for fitness apps, productivity tools (like Pomodoro timers), and time-limited quiz games.
Best Practices for Timers
- Background Accuracy: Dart
Timerobjects do not run accurately when an app is backgrounded by the OS. Always save the exactDateTime.now()timestamp when the app goes to the background, and calculate the elapsed time when it resumes. - UI Decoupling: Never tie your core timer logic directly to UI ticks. The core logic should run independently, simply notifying the UI to repaint the current value via a
StreamorValueNotifier. - Formatting: Use dedicated packages to format raw milliseconds into readable formats like
HH:mm:ss.SSto prevent writing complex modulo math from scratch.
The complete list of Stopwatch, Timer, Countdown, and Time Formatting packages for Flutter is provided below.
clock
👍 253 ⬇️ 5.4M
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A fakeable wrapper for dart:core clock APIs.
circular_countdown_timer
👍 615 ⬇️ 31.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Make an animated circular countdown using Circular Countdown Timer.
slide_countdown
👍 458 ⬇️ 7.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package to create easy slide animation countdown / countup timer.
stop_watch_timer
👍 338 ⬇️ 67.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Simple CountUp timer / CountDown timer. It easily create app of stopwatch.
flutter_countdown_timer
👍 315 ⬇️ 16.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter countdown timer. [10 days 5:30:46] ⬇⬇⬇⬇
flutter_timer_countdown
👍 212 ⬇️ 7.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple timer for counting down a given time. Supports customizable appearance and different formats.
timer_count_down
👍 200 ⬇️ 20.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Simple CountDown timer. Using for create a simple timer. It's pure all
timer_builder
👍 168 ⬇️ 11.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A widget that rebuilds itself on scheduled, periodic, or dynamically generated time events.
custom_timer
👍 146 ⬇️ 1.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package to create a customizable timer with controller.
pausable_timer
👍 92 ⬇️ 170
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A timer implementation that can be paused, resumed and reset.
circular_countdown
👍 72 ⬇️ 760
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A package that represents a circular countdown that you can use for every kind of units (days, hours, seconds, points, ...).
neon_circular_timer
👍 68 ⬇️ 91
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A package that helps you to build a timer quickly with a beautiful UI, it's highly customizable you can change the color,the thickness of the timer,the clock text style.
countdown_progress_indicator
👍 43 ⬇️ 131
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Customizable countdown timer for Flutter with pause/resume controls.
date_count_down
👍 40 ⬇️ 897
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This is a flutter countdown package written in dart for flutter developer.
flip_panel_plus
👍 37 ⬇️ 10
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A package for flip panel items like image, countdown or clock with built-in animation.
code_timer
👍 6 ⬇️ 40
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Code Execution Timer for Dart and Flutter
smart_countdown
👍 5 ⬇️ 13
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for a customizable countdown timer to a specific end DateTime, refreshing every second.
rocket_timer
👍 2 ⬇️ 14
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
The rocket_timer package provides a RocketTimer class for implementing countdown or normal timers in Flutter applications, as well as a RocketTimerBuilder widget for building widgets that respond to changes in a RocketTimer object. It supports starting, pausing, stopping, resetting, and switching between countdown and normal modes, and is easy to use and customize.
animated_digital_clock
👍 1 ⬇️ 54
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Customizable animated digital clock made from clocks
slide_countdown_clock
👍 95 ⬇️ 15
Maintenance Status: Poor
A countdown clock with slide up and down animation plugin for Flutter.
simple_timer
👍 55 ⬇️ 52
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Simple Timer Widget that displays the timer progress with various customizable options.
countdown_flutter
👍 47 ⬇️ 63
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple countdown plugin for flutter. Provides a simple way to create a countdown in your app.