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Top Background Tasks packages by yearly commits
Background workers, isolates, schedulers, and long-running task managers
Ranks repos by total commits over the past 52 weeks. Activity, not quality. A finished library may rank low. A thrashing one may rank high.
Packages need a public GitHub repo, at least 50 commits in the past 52 weeks, and at least 100 downloads a day. Monorepo siblings collapse to the highest-downloaded package.
screen_state first shipped 7 years ago. Ranks #5 in Background Tasks by commit activity, #30 by daily downloads in the same category.
| Rank | Package | Description | Commits / yr | Last commit | Downloads / day | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 🇸🇪 serverpod.dev | Wraps an object in a dedicated isolate and forwards method calls to it, so timer- or event-loop-driven work (e.g. progress spinners) keeps running even when the calling isolate's event loop is blocked. Dependency-free. | 767 | 1d ago | 9K | ★ 3.3K |
| #2 | 🇺🇸 aws-amplify.com | A cross-platform isolated worker runtime for Dart Web, VM, and Flutter. | 296 | 16d ago | 3.8K | ★ 1.4K |
| #3 | 🇺🇸 bbflight.com | A multi-platform background file downloader and uploader. Define the task, enqueue and monitor progress | 158 | 26d ago | 6.1K | ★ 234 |
| #4 | 🇺🇸 fluttercommunity.dev | Flutter plugin for accessing the Android AlarmManager service, and running Dart code in the background when alarms fire. | 118 | 1mo ago | 499 | ★ 1.9K |
| #5 | 🇩🇰 cachet.dk | A plugin for reporting screen events while the flutter application is running in background. Works for Android and iOS only. | 93 | 1mo ago | 207 | ★ 610 |
| #6 | 🇺🇸 google.dev | Auxiliary classes for reliably running a periodic task in a long-running
process such as web-server.
| 75 | 1mo ago | 336 | ★ 508 |
| #7 | 🇺🇸 fluttercommunity.dev | Flutter Workmanager. This plugin allows you to schedule background work on Android and iOS. | 72 | 18d ago | 3.9K | ★ 1K |