Category Dev Tools
Top Dev Tools packages by yearly commits
Developer tooling: launcher icons, native splash, CLI utilities
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.
katana_cli first shipped 3 years ago. Ranks #7 in Dev Tools by commit activity, #272 by daily downloads in the same category.
| Rank | Package | Description | Commits / yr | Last commit | Downloads / day | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | This package provides a library that performs static analysis of Dart code. | 5.9K | 9d ago | 442.7K | ★ 11.2K |
| #2 | 🇪🇸 saropa.com | 2134 custom lint rules with 254 quick fixes for Flutter and Dart. Static analysis for security, accessibility, and performance. | 2.1K | 9d ago | 261 | ★ 8 |
| #3 | 🇺🇸 flutter.dev | Recommended lints for Flutter apps, packages, and plugins to encourage good coding practices. | 1.6K | 9d ago | 207.7K | ★ 5.2K |
| #4 | 🇨🇴 leancode.co | Command-line tool for Patrol, a powerful Flutter-native UI testing framework.
| 1.2K | 9d ago | 3K | ★ 1.4K |
| #5 | 🇰🇿 shodev.live | In-app observability and QA diagnostics toolkit for Flutter, with logs, network tracing, layout inspection, exports, and redaction. | 1.2K | 13d ago | 264 | ★ 21 |
| #6 | 🇸🇪 serverpod.dev | Lints used by internal Serverpod packages. | 737 | 9d ago | 1.7K | ★ 3.2K |
| #7 | 🇯🇵 mathru.net | Command line tool for Masamune/Katana Framework. It initializes the project and initializes the services. | 687 | 11d ago | 101 | ★ 41 |
| #8 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | This package is the backend that invokes build hooks. | 485 | 9d ago | 150.4K | ★ 265 |
| #9 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | Format definition and support for parsing `build.yaml` configuration. | 323 | 10d ago | 164.7K | ★ 856 |
| #10 | 🇩🇪 schultek.dev | A modern web framework for building websites in Dart that feels like Flutter but supports server-side rendering. | 305 | 12d ago | 1K | ★ 2.4K |
| #11 | Approximate how your Flutter app looks and performs on another device | 256 | 10d ago | 564 | ★ 17 | |
| #12 | 🇨🇴 leancode.co | CLI that lets AI agents (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) inspect and interact with running Flutter apps — tap, scroll, type, and screenshot. | 247 | 12d ago | 108 | ★ 329 |
| #13 | 🇺🇸 verygood.ventures | A Very Good Command-Line Interface for Dart created by Very Good Ventures. | 236 | 10d ago | 6.4K | ★ 2.4K |
| #14 | 🇺🇸 flutter.dev | Package of shared Dart structures between devtools_app, dds, and other tools. | 233 | 10d ago | 184.4K | ★ 1.7K |
| #15 | 🇩🇪 flame-engine.org | Flame lint package | 220 | 12d ago | 289 | ★ 10.7K |
| #16 | 🇺🇸 leoafarias.com | A simple cli to manage Flutter SDK versions per project. Support channels, releases, and local cache for fast switching between versions. | 218 | 9d ago | 7K | ★ 5.5K |
| #17 | frezycode.com | Logger. Easy, customizable, extensible logging, lightweight with filters, formatters, custom logs, log levels. | 210 | 2mo ago | 8.5K | ★ 837 |
| #18 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | Support for reading and writing Dart Package Configuration files. | 181 | 10d ago | 246.9K | ★ 108 |
| #19 | 🇩🇪 widgetbook.io | CLI that can publish Widgetbook builds and reviews to Widgetbook Cloud. | 162 | 10d ago | 351 | ★ 927 |
| #20 | DevTools extension for Riverpod - inspect and monitor your providers in real-time. | 157 | 9d ago | 106 | ★ 2 | |
| #21 | dart-frog.dev | A collection of lint rules built specifically for Dart Frog — a fast, minimalistic backend framework for Dart. | 142 | 2mo ago | 566 | ★ 2.3K |
| #22 | leanflutter.dev | Flutter app publisher | 128 | 11d ago | 424 | ★ 1.1K |
| #23 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | Client code to start and interact with the frontend_server compiler from the Dart SDK. | 124 | 19d ago | 208.9K | ★ 224 |
| #24 | 🇺🇸 eggnstone.dev | A configurable Dart and Flutter formatter that never wraps your lines unless you ask. Opt in to braces, spacing, trailing commas, indent width, blank lines. CLI, stdin, or HTTP service. | 124 | 22d ago | 103 | ★ 17 |
| #25 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | A non-interactive HTML documentation generator for Dart source code. | 120 | 17d ago | 2.1K | ★ 493 |
| #26 | 🇯🇵 koji-1009.com | Windows implementation of the flutter_secure_storage_x plugin | 119 | 16d ago | 154 | ★ 2 |
| #27 | 🇹🇷 radlof.com | Flutter desktop updater plugin supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux. It can download and install updates for your application from GitHub, GitLab, local file systems, and S3. | 114 | 10d ago | 128 | ★ 47 |
| #28 | tizen.org | Tizen implementation of the path_provider plugin. | 99 | 17d ago | 212 | ★ 78 |
| #29 | 🇨🇴 bancolombia.com | Dart Code Linter is a software analytics tool that helps developers analyse and improve software quality. Dart Code Linter is based on a fork of Dart Code Metrics. | 97 | 10d ago | 4.5K | ★ 84 |
| #30 | 🇺🇸 fluttercommunity.dev | Flutter plugin for querying information about the application package, such as CFBundleVersion on iOS or versionCode on Android. | 96 | 9d ago | 158.2K | ★ 1.9K |
| #31 | 🇺🇸 brickhub.dev | A reusable Dart logger used by the Mason CLI (package:mason_cli). | 88 | 3mo ago | 29.3K | ★ 1.1K |
| #32 | Linting tool for Dart and Flutter projects to encourage good coding practices. | 86 | 1mo ago | 112 | ★ 17 | |
| #33 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | PAckage aNAlyzer - produce a report summarizing the health and quality of a Dart package. | 85 | 10d ago | 11.1K | ★ 221 |
| #34 | A lightweight flutter plugin to check if your app is up-to-date on GooglePlay or AppStore | 85 | 2mo ago | 143 | ★ 7 | |
| #35 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | A library used by HTTP client authors to integrate with the DevTools Network View. | 80 | 12d ago | 8.8K | ★ 1.1K |
| #36 | 🇯🇵 eaglesakura.com | A project management library that supports the modular monolith structure for Flutter projects. It automates the setup of development environments and task execution for Flutter applications using the monolith.yaml configuration file. | 80 | 5mo ago | 763 | ★ 0 |
| #37 | 🇺🇸 kevmoo.com | A tool to visualize package dependencies and version constraints in your Dart project. | 76 | 26d ago | 308 | ★ 182 |
| #38 | 🇬🇧 invertase.io | A tool for managing Dart & Flutter repositories with multiple packages (monorepo). Supports automated versioning via Conventional Commits. Inspired by JavaScripts Lerna package. | 74 | 11d ago | 44K | ★ 1.5K |
| #39 | 🇺🇸 larryaasen.com | Flutter package for prompting users to upgrade when there is a newer version of the app in the store. | 71 | 9d ago | 7.4K | ★ 640 |
| #40 | 🇺🇸 tools.dart.dev | Opinionated, automatic Dart source code formatter. Provides an API and a CLI tool. | 70 | 19d ago | 325.1K | ★ 702 |
| #41 | 🇯🇵 wasabeef.jp | The Flutter code generator for your assets, fonts, colors, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs. | 70 | 25d ago | 4K | ★ 1.6K |
| #42 | 🇮🇹 angelocassano.it | A flutter utility to easily create flavors in your flutter application | 60 | 13d ago | 4.5K | ★ 568 |
| #43 | 🇸🇪 serverpod.dev | A package for parsing command-line arguments and configuration files. | 59 | 24d ago | 3.8K | ★ 12 |
| #44 | 🇺🇸 shorebird.dev | Check for and download Shorebird code push updates from your app. | 53 | 12d ago | 5.9K | ★ 89 |
| #45 | 🇸🇪 serverpod.dev | CLI that installs AI agent skills from your Dart and Flutter package dependencies into your IDE, so Antigravity, Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other assistants know how to use your stack.
| 53 | 9d ago | 1.6K | ★ 25 |
| #46 | 🇯🇵 yumemi.co.jp | Customizable Linter library which enforces coding standards and best practice for Flutter/Dart apps, packages and plugins. | 53 | 3mo ago | 164 | ★ 20 |
| #47 | 🇫🇷 tekartik.com | Development utilities for dart and flutter packages. CI and build helpers. | 50 | 24d ago | 122 | ★ 1 |
