# gskinner/flutter_animate

Add beautiful animated effects & builders in Flutter, via an easy, highly customizable unified API.

Repository: https://github.com/gskinner/flutter_animate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flutter_animate
Language: Dart
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-11-25T19:38:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 34/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1564, "days_push": 646, "days_rel": 646, "gap_med": 4, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1110, forks 103 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:37.434195+00:00)

## What it is
A Flutter library providing a unified, chainable API for adding animated effects to widgets, including pre-built effects like fade, scale, slide, blur, and shimmer, plus custom effects and GLSL fragment shader support. It eliminates the need to manually manage AnimationControllers and StatefulWidgets for common animations.

## Use cases
- animate widgets in flutter without animationcontroller
- add fade and scale entrance animations to ui elements
- apply shimmer or shake effects to widgets
- synchronize animations to scroll position
- run glsl fragment shaders on flutter widgets
- chain sequential animation effects with delays

## When to choose
- you want declarative, chainable widget animations in Flutter
- you need pre-built effects like fade, scale, blur, or shimmer quickly
- you want to sync animations to scroll or notifiers
- you prefer avoiding boilerplate AnimationController code

## When to avoid
- you need complex physics-based or hero-style transitions better served by Flutter's built-in APIs
- you are not building a Flutter application
- you need frame-by-frame or Lottie-style animation playback

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: animation, ui-components
- domain: frontend, mobile-development, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: flutter, dart, animation-library, flutter-favorite, shaders, widget-effects, mobile, desktop, web-server

## Member repositories
- gskinner/flutter_animate (main) score 34

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.434195+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:43:27.244617+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gskinner/flutter_animate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.434195+00:00, sha 99f58bc70f00)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.