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Top Flutter Background Effects, Gradients and Shaders packages

Last updated: October 19, 2025

A background can be added to a Flutter app that usually appears underneath other widgets. It can be a static image, a gradient, a motion effect backgroud or can utilize shaders to render realistic effects. Backgrounds help in adding depth to an app.

The complete list of Flutter packages that can add Background Images, Background Effects, Gradients & Shaders to Flutter apps is provided below.


flutter_shaders
👍 116   ⬇️ 833K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

A collection of utilities for working with the FragmentProgram API in Flutter.

animated_background
👍 307   ⬇️ 2.3K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Animated Backgrounds for Flutter. Easily extended to paint whatever you want on the canvas.

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mesh_gradient
👍 258   ⬇️ 27.1K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Widgets which create beautiful fluid-like mesh gradients in Flutter.

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animate_gradient
👍 186   ⬇️ 4.1K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

This Package lets you make animated gradients without any hassle. Just pass the primary and secondary colors and you're done.

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particles_flutter
👍 174   ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

A flutter package for particle animation. You can control the animation speed, number of Particles on the screen, dimension and shape of particle via connecting lines,etc.

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mesh
👍 157   ⬇️ 7.8K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

Fast and highly customizable animated Mesh Gradients for Flutter applications. Using Shaders and vertices.

particle_field
👍 139   ⬇️ 10.3K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

A Flutter Widget for adding high performance custom particle effects to your UI.

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weather_animation
👍 126   ⬇️ 450
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

The package contains beautiful weather animations. Easy setup with the weather configurator!

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newton_particles
👍 110   ⬇️ 9.4K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Create stunning animations with configurable particle emitters. Add rain, smoke, and more effects to your Flutter app!

parallax_sensors_bg
👍 114   ⬇️ 185
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter package to simplify giving a parallax effect in the background of a page that responds to a corresponding sensor detection.

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patterns_canvas
👍 107   ⬇️ 6.3K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Draw patterns like stripes or dots on canvas elements or widgets.

animated_glitch
👍 102   ⬇️ 21
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Animated Glitch is a Flutter package that allows you to easily create glitch effects and control them

metaballs
👍 97   ⬇️ 678
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

A metaballs implementation for flutter using webgl on the web and the shader package on other devices

reflective_visual
👍 92   ⬇️ 76
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Reflective visual for flutter apps.

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floating_bubbles
👍 86   ⬇️ 5.1K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

A Flutter Package for adding Floating bubbles on the Foreground to any Flutter widget.

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parallax_rain
👍 88   ⬇️ 139
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Use this package to create cool 3D rain effects. Customize with multiple colors, different raindrop speeds, drop trail effects and more!

flutter_weather_bg_null_safety
👍 75   ⬇️ 206
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Provide a variety of weather background animation effects, covering 15 weather types, including sunny,rain,snow...

aura_box
👍 71   ⬇️ 600
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter Widget that combines multiple radial gradients and blur effect.

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vitality
👍 69   ⬇️ 87
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Add captivating live animations to your Flutter app effortlessly with Vitality!

shader
👍 63   ⬇️ 35
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Command-line application for compiling GLSL shaders into Flutter-compatible SPR-V byte code.

scaffold_gradient_background
👍 60   ⬇️ 8
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

A widget that works like a scaffold, except that you can set a gradient as background.

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snow_fall_animation
👍 56   ⬇️ 3
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

A Flutter plugin that creates beautiful snowfall animations and effects

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particles_fly
👍 51   ⬇️ 165
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

A package that provides an easy way to add particles js in flutter project.

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shader_buffers
👍 50   ⬇️ 414
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

Using shaders to feed a shader. Make shaders simplier to use with a focus on the ShaderToy.com website.

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dynamic_background
👍 50   ⬇️ 119
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

Allows developers to create animated backgrounds for their Flutter apps.

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magnifying_glass
👍 46   ⬇️ 464
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Flutter real-time magnifying glass lens widget with Barrel/Pincushion distortion.

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particles_network
👍 44   ⬇️ 264
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

A performant and customizable interactive particle network widget for Flutter. Ideal for background animations, landing pages, and visual effects.

fancy_containers
👍 42   ⬇️ 64
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Fancy Containers Flutter Package

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particular
👍 42   ⬇️ 49
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

The Particular is a high performance particle effects flutter widget.

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shader_presets
👍 41   ⬇️ 171
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

A bunch of ready to use shader presets using shader_buffers package

parallax_effect
👍 41   ⬇️ 37
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Parallax effect animations for all platforms.

live_background
👍 40   ⬇️ 33
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Provide nice moving particle bokeh effect wall paper on your background.

glopos
👍 39   ⬇️ 21
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

View elements in a global scene through local windows. Create effects which visually connect separate UI elements.

awesome_aurora_gradient
👍 39   ⬇️ 2
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

A very colourful extension to create awesome Aurora gradients.

cool_background_animation
👍 38   ⬇️ 69
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

A Flutter package for stunning and customizable background animations.

eeffects
👍 38   ⬇️ 37
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter package containing a variety of simple 2D effects. Point Lights, Light Beams, fire and Lightning Bolts so far.

aurora
👍 35   ⬇️ 508
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Widget to easily create aurora gradient backgrounds for your flutter app

umbra_cli
👍 35   ⬇️ 35
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Umbra CLI allows Flutter developers to create their own shaders and compile them to strongly typed dart files.

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background
👍 33   ⬇️ 168
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

A Flutter package to display images or videos as backgrounds.

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flutter_moving_background
👍 31   ⬇️ 98
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

A Flutter Package to create beautiful and animated backgrounds,such as gradients ,circular forms and particles

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parallax_bg
👍 31   ⬇️ 43
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

Create beautiful & interactive parallax backgrounds

animated_gradient
👍 27   ⬇️ 4.9K
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Average

plugin to create animated gradient background with muliple color in flutter project

starsview
👍 28   ⬇️ 141
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

AnimatedStarsView for Flutter. The widget provides a view with an animated starry night sky effect.

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gen_art_bg
👍 21   ⬇️ 219
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

Flutter Animated Generative Art Backgrounds collection. Can be used as a background or separately.

flutter_opengl
👍 19   ⬇️ 42
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Poor

Flutter plugin to bind a Texture widget to an OpenGL ES context. Many ShaderToy shaders can be used

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lava_lamp_effect
👍 6   ⬇️ 112
Dart 3 compatible
Maintenance Status: Good

A widget that provides a customizable lava lamp effect with fluid animations, adjustable colors, sizes, and speeds.

foil
👍 110   ⬇️ 7

Maintenance Status: Poor

Wrap a widget with Foil, providing a rainbow shimmer that twinkles as the accelerometer moves as well as tons of neat gradient features.

gradient_widgets
👍 90   ⬇️ 991

Maintenance Status: Poor

A minimal set of Flutter widgets encased with beautiful gradients.

flutter_weather_bg
👍 56   ⬇️ 73

Maintenance Status: Poor

Provide a variety of weather background animation effects, covering 15 weather types, including sunny,rain,snow...

water_drop
👍 36   ⬇️ 20

Maintenance Status: Poor

A package for creating water drops on top of your widgets.