Top Apps Made With Flutter - Ebook PDF

Top Apps  
Made  
with 
Flutter
1 7 S t o r i e s
by Developers  
& Business Owners
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Table of contents
Please note: we have sorted the content according to
categories – the order of the applications is related neither  

to quality, nor popularity.
Editorial note 5
Introduction 8
Social Networking 12
• KlasterMe – app for content discovering & creation 13
• Pairing – app connecting singles 20
• Meeve – app to connect people offline 26
• n8 – app for finding events 34

Photo & video 35
• PostMuse – Instagram story & photo editor app 36
Health & Fitness 44
• Reflectly – mindfulness app 45
• Watermaniac – app for tracking drinking water 51

Shopping 56
• Xianyu by Alibaba – m-commerce app 57
• HuYu – app for paid surveys & rewards 62
Music 71
• Topline – music recording app 72

• Music Tutor – learn to read music app 77
Entertainment 81
• InKino – showtime browser for Finnkino theatres 82
• Hamilton – app for Hamilton musical fans 86

Sport 87
• Top Goals – app for soccer fans 88
• EntrenaPro – app to finding trainers & sports centres 92
Finance 96
• Cryptomaniac Pro – cryptocurrencies signal app 97

Education 102
• School planner – app for students & teachers 103

Maps and navigation 108
• Station La Moins Chère – fuel price app 109
Lifestyle 113
• Pawfect Match – app for animals adoption 114

Travel 115
• Flydirekt – app for standby travelers 116
Business 117
• Google Ads – advertising manager app 118
• AppTree – enterprise app client 119
Last but not least insight from a Flutter expert 120
Wrap up 128
Resources 130
About Droids On Roids 131

Editorial note
In April of last year, when we were first researching Flutter
and writing this article on its pros and cons for app owners,
we noticed three key drawbacks of the technology.
Flashforward to today: two-of-the-three flaws have already
disappeared with the release of Flutter 1.0, which gets me to

n o t e
thinking: Will Flutter turn the world of app development
on its head?
E d i t o r i a l
After all, we’re witnessing monthly improvements in  

the Flutter SDK as Google continues to refine its tool. Plus,  
the community is always enthusiastic and helpful. So, even  
if you’re making your first steps into the arena, you know  
you can count on them.
As we watched more and more apps built with Flutter
appear on the market, it piqued our interest. And we
wanted to look behind-the-scenes – to meet the daredevils
who had decided to take a path less well-trodden.
Watching Flutter Developer Stories on the Google Developers
YouTube channel just gave us an appetite for more.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Editorial note | 5

We wanted to find out: What obstacles the developers and
business owners faced? How they dealt with learning Dart?
Did they achieve everything they wanted on the business
side? And did using Flutter affect the development cycle or
teamwork?
As you can see, we had a lot of questions circling about our
heads, and therein lies the inspiration for this ebook.
We were delighted to have so many enthusiastic responses

from both businesses and Flutter app developers alike who
n o t e
were keen to be involved with this project.
First and foremost, they are all pioneers in equal measure:

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hungry for knowledge, eager to learn, and open to
sharing their experiences with anyone who’s interested.
We love them for that. We’re so grateful we can now pass on

the knowledge our companions shared, to you. Not only did
they discuss the pros and cons of Flutter itself, but they
also compared the solution to React Native.  
And answered questions about whether the most common

fears concerning Flutter are, in fact, justified.

Below is a snapshot of a few of their responses:
“Cross-platform solutions have been around for a long time, but
Flutter is the first one to do it right.”
“Flutter is still very early, and so there are occasionally some
bumps in the road (…)” 
“Our crash rates are down tenfold, and our users are happier
than ever.” 
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“From the first line of Flutter code, until we were finished  
with the entire app – including the entire redesign and adding  
a bunch of new features underway – it took only 

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2.5 months.” 
What you’ve just read is only a handful of quotes from  
the seventeen stories we’ve collected in this ebook. We hope
they’ll provide inspiration as much as serve as road-signs.
So, sit back, and grab a cup of your favourite coffee or tea.
Prepare to delve into the unknown with experienced Flutter
practitioners as your guide.
Agnieszka Mroczkowska
Content Marketing Manager at Droids On Roids

Apps made with Flutter
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Introduction
Stories by Developers & Business Owners

A few facts about Flutter
On December 4, 2018, Google released Flutter 1.0. Check
this video to watch the announcement from Tim Sneath.
What’s more, Google used the same event to launch
Hummingbird: a new project focused on bringing Flutter
apps to the web, running the same code whether in your

browser or on your smartphone (it is in beta, for now).
Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK. Complete with  
a framework, widgets and tools, Flutter gives developers

I n t r o d u c t i o n
an easy way to build and deploy aesthetically-pleasing,
fast mobile apps – on both Android and iOS platforms  
– with as little overhead as possible.  
Flutter is a hot topic, and, whether you decide to use it or not,

if you want to develop or improve your app, you should  
be aware of what it is, how it works, and the general  
pros and cons.
Here you can read our full article on Flutter’s business

advantages and disadvantages.
Rest assured, in this ebook, we dig deep.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Introduction | 9

We ask 17 app owners and developers – people who are
actively working with Flutter – to tell their stories and share
their opinions about using Flutter’s technology.
What will you find in this ebook?
• A list of the 22 top applications made using Flutter  
– including descriptions, screenshots and other useful
links
• Stories and recommendations shared by 17 Flutter app

owners and developers with detailed insights into using
the technology 
What you’ll learn from the Flutter stories by

developer and business owners:
• Why did they decide to use Flutter for their projects?
• Would they use it again? Why? Why not…?
• Did they enjoy working with Flutter?
• Was it noticeably different to Native app development,
or React Native?
• The pros and cons of Flutter – both from a developer
and business perspective

How we chose the applications listed in  
this ebook:
The selection criteria were subjective – we based our choice
on the following:
• Apps that represent various different categories
(including social networking, entertainment, finance,
sports and travel)
• Big market players’ apps (e.g. Google, Abbey Road
Studios, Alibaba)
• Apps with an original idea and social value  
( e.g. an app for adopting homeless animals)
• Apps created as a hobby, which gained notable
recognition among users (e.g. a school planner)
• Applications with a beautiful UI (e.g. Reflectly, HuYu) 
If you’re ready to learn about Flutter from experienced
practitioners from all over the world, it’s time to dive into  
the best Flutter apps there are.

Social networking
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KlasterMe
App for content discovering & creation
The app for creating, sharing, and discovering
different forms of content from images to
articles. A user can create a page to showcase

their contents and get recognised in the
community. The pilot web version of the app
was released on December 2018, the Android
version on January 1, 2019, and the iOS
version on January 5, 2019.
App on App Store | App on Google Play | Website
Top Apps Made with Flutter | KlasterMe | 13

”
Flutter almost works like magic. Abracadabra… there comes
a navigation drawer. Hocus pocus… a hero animation.  
It is that easy and fun!
Abin Baby
Co-founder and Developer at KlasterMe
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Abin Baby
Co-founder & Developer at KlasterMe
Why Flutter?
 
Both our iOS and Android apps are entirely built using Flutter.
It is just about a month old when I am writing this, and when
we started KlasterMe project couple of months ago, Flutter

s t o r y
was still in its Beta. So, there should be something about this
SDK that drew all our attention. 
One thing we wanted for KlasterMe app was a single

F l u t t e r
codebase for both Android and iOS platforms. And of course

React Native was the first to hit our minds. It has been
around for some time and there are a bunch of popular apps,
including Facebook and Instagram, built using this

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framework.  
Without blindly following the crowd we decided to
experiment a little bit with the available cross-platform
development frameworks by making a small module of our
real application in all of them. We were considering: React

Native, NativeScript, and Flutter. 
As I mentioned before, Flutter was still in its Beta phase and
we decided to try it out just out of curiosity. But soon it had

all our attention.

Once you are past the steep learning curve, Flutter almost
works like magic. Abracadabra...there comes a navigation
drawer. Hocus pocus...a hero animation. It is that easy and fun. 
Flutter vs. React Native 
• For me, Flutter had a steeper learning curve than
React Native because React Native uses Javascript

which was a familiar language for me while I was new to
Dart which is the language used by Flutter.  

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So, if you are new to Dart trying to learn Flutter, it will
consume more time than React Native. At the same

time, if you have previous experience in Dart, learning
F l u t t e r
Flutter will be just a walk in a park.  
• The components in React Native are pretty basic so

if you need anything extra, considerable effort is
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required in styling. Only some of the components are
adaptive to the platform. Most of the time you have to
use a different component for iOS and Android or style
it differently.  
 
On the other hand, for Flutter everything is a widget.
Widgets are based on Material Design and are easily
customizable. Most of the widgets are adaptive and
you can use the same widget for Android and iOS.

• Talking about performance, Flutter has really an
upper hand over React Native as it is compiled to
ARM or x86 native libraries, which makes it really
fast whereas React Native is not compiled to native
code and still has that Javascript layer that makes it
underperform compared to Flutter. 
Developer’s perspective 
It was a really a smooth experience building KlasterMe with

s t o r y
Flutter. I never experienced a developer's block on the whole
span of the project. Flutter has a really enthusiastic and
helpful community around on Github, Stack Overflow, and

Google groups. The community was really helpful whenever  
F l u t t e r
I was stuck with something on the project. Also I need to
mention that they have insanely good documentation
which made the onboarding really, really easy. 

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Flutter widgets made development so simple, productive and
fast. Although third-party modules and components are not
as large as in case of React Native, more than 90% of the
widgets required for our first version were available in Dart

Pub. These widgets are so easily customizable that you can
create almost anything you can imagine effortlessly. 
The Hot Reload feature also helped to speed up the

development process making it straightforward to
experiment with the UI and fix bugs in extremely short time.

Flutter is the best mobile development framework I have
come across so far.
Pros of Flutter 
• Amazing community and awesome documentation.
• Readily available and highly customizable widgets.
• Hot Reload makes changes appear instantaneously
making app development and bug fixing fast.
•
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Flutter takes JIT (Just In Time) compilation while  
in development mode making development cycles
faster and AOT (Ahead of Time) compilation while  
in production mode making apps run faster.

F l u t t e r
• Dart compiles to native code directly, which makes  

the app really fast.
• Fast apps need to be smooth. Flutter aims to provide  

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60 FPS rendering performance.
• Flutter's BLoC pattern makes the app easy to scale  
and maintain. In BLoC pattern UI, model, data and

Network provider are separated and so is the data flow
between them.
• We are currently working on the internationalization  
of the app. This can also be achieved quite easily with
Flutter's intl package.

Cons of Flutter 
• One drawback of Flutter I have noticed is the large file

size for small apps. For example, a Hello World app
would be of a size more than 3MB in Flutter whereas  
in the native code it would be less than 600KB.
• Steep learning curve if you are not familiar with Dart
programming language.
Overall, Flutter was the best framework we could have  

s t o r y
for our KlasterMe app.
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F l u t t e r
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Pairing
App connecting singles
A social network for matchmaking and dating.

Aims to create a safe environment for finding
the right match for a meaningful relationship.
Because of its social-network nature, being
available both on Android and iOS was a must
requirement.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Pairing | 20

”
It feels like the Flutter team took the good parts from native
development and combined it with the good parts React
Native introduced, and further developed it from  
there based on React Native's lessons. So it feels like the
best of both worlds!
Ronen Rabinovici
Co-founder at Pairing
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Ronen Rabinovici
Co-founder at Pairing
Why Flutter?
Pairing is a social network that depends heavily on your
friends having the app as well. So having it available both for

Android and iOS was really a must.
s t o r y
We were exploring different options. Even started
development on native iOS 4 years ago. At some point we

F l u t t e r
switched to React Native, and then finally we made another

tough decision and switched to Flutter about a year ago.
That's when development really started taking off.
The decision to go with Flutter was very good. It was what

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made this complex social app available for both platforms in

reasonable development time. Plus, maintenance is much
easier thanks to the cross platform nature.
Business-wise, one needs to understand that Flutter gives
you a cross-platform solution for:
1. UI, UX – completely 100% shared on all platforms. Unlike
React Native which is a bridge to native UI elements.

2. Business logic, math, algorithms – 100% shared.
At the same time, anything that needs to talk to the

operating system (e.g. accessing phone contacts) cannot be
shared and has to be developed separately for each
system. Of course, many common plugins already exist.
Concluding, the bottom line is that most of the code is

shared. Probably around 85% for Pairing.
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Developer’s perspective
The development team grasped Flutter in no time. They

F l u t t e r
find developing with it very easy and enjoyable. It is based on

Dart, a strongly typed language which mostly resembles Java.
Discovering this technology is also very easy due to the great
online documentation plus the inherent one within the
Flutter code.
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Development with Flutter really feels as native one does.
The language is strong. The compiler catches errors. The IDE
helps you to code. And – just like in native – you get common
views and UI elements.

Pros of Flutter
The big difference from native development are the widgets
introduced by Flutter. In other development frameworks UI is

defined by some xml-like language. Here, whole UI is a part
of the code. I find it both more comfortable and flexible.
The fact that every scene is built from code gives you a very
easy and elegant way to update the view based on the

app's state, incoming data, and user input. You don't need to
s t o r y
have an XML and then hook it up in code. It's inherently
hooked to your model. It's completely REACTIVE.

F l u t t e r
It feels like the Flutter team took the good parts from
native development and combined it with the good parts
React Native introduced, and further developed it from
there based on React Native's lessons. So it feels like the
best of both!
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Another huge asset of Flutter is the Hot Reload. You change
code and it is immediately updated on your device. Not even
a 'flashing' screen. That's a big advantage over native
development.
Yet another pros – Google supports not only the
framework but also its ecosystem: documentation, Github
issues, and plugins (e.g. Firebase, Camera, sensors).

Flutter cons in my opinion
I really cannot think of significant disadvantages. If your app
is specifically designed ONLY for Android or ONLY for iOS,

and it needs many interactions with the operating system  
– you are probably better off with native development. In all
other cases we would go with Flutter.
To sum up
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The results are great. Great UX, feels native to users. We are
very satisfied with Flutter, and believe that it is the
future in mobile development. In fact, we now work on
migrating all our existing native apps to Flutter.

F l u t t e r

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Meeve
App to connect people offline
The app allows users to connect with people
nearby through events.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Meeve | 26

”
Development in Flutter is a breeze. We hope it will
become the ultimate alternative to the native code, or
even replace it.
Ishaan Bahal
Co-founder at Meeve
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Ishaan Bahal
Co-founders at Meeve
Why Flutter? 
When we decided to create Meeve, our experience was

limited to either Android or React Native, and we needed to
target both platforms from the beginning. So writing native

s t o r y
code was out, because we would’ve had to learn Swift
programming language and then maintain two separate code
bases.
F l u t t e r
React Native is a very popular solution, and that should’ve
been the obvious choice, but our prior experience with it
wasn’t quite positive. Flutter was in its Alpha when we

started development and has changed quite a bit since then.
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We saw a lot of big companies started picking up Flutter
including Alibaba or Google (of course), so we decided to take
a look at it, just to get a feel of it and see if Flutter can be  
a proper replacement for React Native and if it does have

everything we needed.
About a week later we were quite happy and impressed with
how Flutter managed to give the app a very polished feel,  

the inbuilt little things like support for notched phones, all
latest material widgets and a lot of Cupertino (iOS-style) ones.

It even handled basic transition animations automatically and
correctly for either OS.
For businesses thinking of using Flutter – do it. It can
reduce development costs by half because Flutter makes it
easy for devs to maintain the codebase for apps running on
both iOS and Android.  
Development in Flutter is a breeze. It’s so much faster than
the native code, you hardly ever have to build and even when
s t o r y
you do have to create a complete build, it takes far less time.  
React Native vs. Flutter 

F l u t t e r
React Native is the closest competitor to Flutter, and it is good
and a sort of like a standard for cross-platform native
development. But in our experience, it had a few issues. 

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1. React Native was a wrapper over native methods and
requires a bridge to translate those calls to native API.
This becomes a bottleneck when you have a lot of native calls
happening. There are ways to do it smartly, but with Flutter

you don’t have to worry about this since the view layer is
rendered like a game would be, all components are designed
by Flutter engineers, so native calls to the bridge are far less.
2. Components sometimes aren’t quite as customisable

because they are wrappers over native views and if
someone didn’t decide to wrap a certain method, you cannot

have access to it. For instance, dashed borders around a view
don’t work. New components released by Google and Apple
take a lot of time to be available to use.
3. Problems have started to take a lot longer to get fixed.
The dashed border issue, the one of supporting various build
flavours etc. Most companies running React Native in
production are running their custom fork to fix bugs that

aren’t fixed upstream, read more. The Flutter devs are quite
active and you can expect fixes fast, at least so far. 

s t o r y
4. We devoted most of our time looking for issues in

documentation and figuring out why things aren’t working
F l u t t e r
the way they should. 
These issues sent us looking for something better, and Flutter

was right around the corner.  
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The common Flutter fears  
Starting to write an app with Flutter can be a daunting task  
at first thought for a few reasons: 
1. Dart. It is a new language which is hardly ever used in  
the industry, at least no one we knew ever used it for  
the web. And it’s a bit of a pain to learn new languages. But
Dart is nicely designed, and anyone familiar with either Java,
JS or even Kotlin can pick it up in a few hours with ease. 

2. Coupled code. With Flutter, you write code inside  
the layout you are designing. Since everything is pure Dart
and nothing like JSX is happening, everything is a widget and

highly customisable, which starts to make a mess quite easily.
It takes some time and a bunch of tries and errors to
understand how to structure your code to keep it readable

after 2 days.
3. It’s new. Anything new cannot be easily put into

s t o r y
production. And people are skeptical of Flutter too. There’s no
need for this skepticism because despite Flutter being new it

is quite stable for production use. We’ve faced only two types
F l u t t e r
of crashes since the launch, and those were fixed by  
the Flutter team quite quickly.
Pros of Flutter 
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• Supported by Google.
• Works on Android, iOS, Desktop, Web (Project
Hummingbird), desktop and the upcoming Fuchsia OS.
• Hot Reload and Hot Restart. Godsend!
• Faster development time and single codebase management.
• Nice collection of native components, especially for
Material Design apps. Cupertino is also growing day by day.
• Quite easy to grasp if you’ve worked with React Native
or just web at all.

• Good support for GRPC (this isn’t quite useful for a lot
of people, but we designed our services to use GRPC
and Dart has complete support for it).
Cons of Flutter 
Flutter also has a few issues too, some of which are slowly
fading away and may not even be relevant after some time. 
• Lack of first party plugins. The Flutter devs have made

s t o r y
quite a few plugins, but there’s still a lot of APIs even by
Google missing for the platform. For instance, the Maps
API for iOS just got a stable release, and even then it
lacks quite a lot of features.

F l u t t e r
• A little less control than you’d have over a native app.
• The community is a bit small so it can be a bit hard to
have your problem solved, especially for newcomers.  

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The devs are quite helpful though, and there are quite a
few hangouts on Stack Overflow as well as the Gitter chat.
• Lacks builtin support for multiple build variants. We
had to come up with a custom Dart only solution to get
builds for multiple backend environments. We even
wrote an article about it.
• Documentation lacks information a bit at times, and you

have to figure things out on your own.

To sum up 
Overall, Flutter for us has been a great value. Wanting to
get to the market with a bunch of backend microservices  
and two apps seemed quite hard but Flutter together with
GRPC made it easier than expected.
Sure it lacks some features that we’re still waiting for,  
but we never felt like we should give up and take up native
platform coding. Flutter has been a good toolkit and with  

s t o r y
the way it is being developed we hope it will become  
the ultimate alternative to the native code, or even replace it. 
We definitely will be sticking to Flutter for the upcoming

F l u t t e r
projects. We are working on one right now and eagerly
waiting for the Hummingbird project to see the light of  
day to target Meeve for the web too.

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n8
App for finding events
The app allows users to meet new people
nearby by joining them in real life activities.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | n8 | 34

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Photo & Video

PostMuse
Instagram story & photo editor app
PostMuse is a free photo editor that helps
users to create personalised Instastories and
Instagram posts. The app contains plenty of

free fonts, free images, photo frames, and
emojis to pick from.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | PostMuse | 36

”
Anyone can write code that a machine understands, but
only good devs can write code that other devs can
understand, and Flutter makes it easy to be a good dev.
Andrei Diaconu
Founder of PostMuse
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Andrei Diaconu
Founder of PostMuse
Why Flutter? 
We had the idea for PostMuse for a while. After research, we

reached a conclusion: this idea is not feasible for us. What is
easy to deliver on iOS might be hard to deliver on Android

s t o r y
and vice-versa. We decided to keep the project on our long-
term to-do list.
Once we studied Flutter, we quickly understood that being

F l u t t e r
built on top of Skia meant we could render just about
anything with it, and not only on mobile. (Skia is  
the rendering engine behind Chrome. If Chrome runs on  

a device, you should eventually see Flutter run on that device
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too). So in a way, we did not choose Flutter for this project,
but rather we gave Flutter our vote of confidence and
PostMuse seemed like a perfect first project for it. 
Was it a good choice?  
We see a lot of benefits that stem from using Flutter. Our
team consists of two people, and only one writes the code,
but this is more than enough for us to make the progress we
needed, both for iOS and Android.

We look at the big players in our space and they all have
native apps. It takes them a long time to ship the same

feature on both iOS and Android – and this is a problem we
simply don't have when using Flutter.  
There is also a lot of overhead in communication and

management when you have two teams that need to deliver
the same experience. Consistency is not easy to get on
cross-platform products, but for us – thanks to Flutter – it
is something we don't think about at all. I would say that

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Flutter was a great choice.  
A typical app needs a good way to organise navigation, lists,
transitions, REST calls and a few other things. Flutter is more

F l u t t e r
than qualified to deliver in a big way for most of the apps

you have on your phone.
The framework is still very young and this has its

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disadvantages. For example, a few months back, a bug in  
the framework affected a considerable number of our users

making the app unusable.
You can look at the Github issue to see the pain we went
through – and we had not workaround. The Flutter team tried
fixing the issue a bunch of times and each time we were

holding our breath. I'm glad to say the bug is now fixed, and
this is how we learned that the community on Github and
general support from the official Flutter team is top notch.

When is Flutter NOT a good choice?  
We are strong advocates of Flutter, but we also acknowledge

there are plenty of cases where a company would be better
off with something more stable or something that leverages
their internal resources better.  
A good example can be any app with very little UI or apps
that have a lot of system integration to do. If you need
specific OS functionality and most of the work you will

s t o r y
put in will be in Swift or Kotlin anyway, then you should
probably just go native. Before you make that decision

though, check out pub.dartlang.org because there is a chance
someone created a package with that OS specific code.  

F l u t t e r
Developer’s experience
I started Android development in 2010, back when Eclipse

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was the IDE of choice. I'm saying this for reference. I was
super thankful for Android Studio and Gradle for the longest
time.
Developing in Flutter is simply magical – everything is
nearly instant to reload, complex UIs get built in hours
and the code itself is very easy to read through and

maintain. And while I consider the instant reload and speed
of development as things that are nice to have, bells and
whistles – I value consistency and maintainability the most.

Anyone can write code that a machine understands, only
good devs can write code that other devs can understand;
and Flutter makes it easy to be a good dev, from my

experience.  
The Flutter team made sure to make development fun, and
this includes Dart as a language. Do I miss Kotlin? Yes, to be

honest – but I hope to never go back to slow reloads, slow
compiles and lots of boilerplate to go along with it. 

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Flutter vs. native app development  

vs. React Native 
One thing I would like to mention is that as a result of using

F l u t t e r
Flutter, I started learning iOS development and even wrote
some packages in Swift. I think iOS devs might wonder how
Flutter compares or how Android development compares to
their work.  
M y
After using both [Android Studio + Kotlin] and [XCode + Swift],
I feel sorry for iOS devs: you have Swift, which is awesome,
and the luxury of developing for tens, not thousand of
devices – but you also have to deal with XCode. Sadly, so do

Flutter devs, from time to time. 
I only wrote a small app in React Native and can say that
developing with it is fairly fun, but when it comes to
complex UI styling, nothing beats Flutter.

And when I say nothing, I also mean the native Android and
iOS frameworks. I think in some cases the Flutter
implementation of Material Design was more on-point

than the Android implementation for it. It really is that
extensible and powerful and playing with it for just a few days
should make that obvious to anyone.
Cons of Flutter
Flutter still has a few things missing. A complete and
reliable solution for in-app purchases has not emerged

s t o r y
yet. If you are worried about this, don't be – there are a few
libraries that solve parts of in-app purchases and you can
most likely get the job done. I think everyone wants an

F l u t t e r
official, really good repo for in-app purchases, and the Flutter
team is working on it. 
The project has over 4000 issues that are still open. It's not
M y
always going to be like this. I expect most of those issues to
be fixed this year and most of the more serious ones were
already addressed before Flutter 1.0 was released. Some of
the best minds at Google are working on this project and are
making impressive progress every quarter.
To sum up 
If you are starting a new project, you should definitely
consider Flutter. If you have problems the community will
be super helpful.

The Github issues are the slow way to get in touch with them.
There is a Gitter channel where live chat happens and there
are Reddit and Twitter communities as well.
I will definitely use Flutter on all my future projects.  
I'm especially excited for a time when Flutter runs by default
on desktop and web as well as mobile. Future looks really
nice for this platform.

s t o r y
F l u t t e r
M y

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Health & Fitness

Reflectly
Mindfulness app
A personal mental health companion.  
Reflectly is a journal using artificial intelligence
to help users structure and reflect upon their

daily thoughts and problems.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Reflectly | 45

”
Not only are we able to maintain incredibly fast and
extremely confident release cycles, but also we haven’t
ONCE had to do a platform-specific implementation.  
Our users are happier than ever.
Jacob Kristensen
Founder & CPO at Reflectly
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Jacob Kristensen
Founder & CPO at Reflectly
How we abandoned React Native and changed

it to Flutter 
Reflectly was started in January 2017. Fast forward to August
2017 – after an extensive period of user testing – we

s t o r y
launched an MVP of Reflectly built entirely in React
Native.  
Now, even though our app received very positive initial

F l u t t e r
feedback, we often found ourselves battling to fix errors,
crashes, and random exceptions that were causing our users
to have an inferior experience. We had a huge issue

especially with the cross-platform compatibility of our UI
M y
between iOS and Android – it simply wasn’t working for us.
It was actually so bad that we had to initially delay our
Android release by 1.5 months to just get everything fixed

and that required that we did a lot of platform-specific
implementation which kind of defeated the purpose of
writing cross-platform for me.
So, in January 2018 we decided that we want to look

elsewhere.

We simply could not output our intended features fast
enough and that was slowing down our business
immensely which was frustrating to say the least.
Now, with us only being two engineers on the team (myself
for frontend and my co-founder for the backend), we really
wanted to use a cross-platform framework that would
allow us to maintain a high speed of development while

still delivering an amazing experience across the board.  
As such, we started looking far and wide, where we came

s t o r y
across Flutter. 
We initially tested the framework (which was still in late Alpha

F l u t t e r
back then) to get an idea of whether or not all the required
features we needed were supported. As it was quite a risk for
us to invest such a huge block of time in rebuilding everything
from scratch in a completely new framework – that

furthermore didn’t have all too much market validation at  
M y
the time – we wanted to be certain that we were making an
informed decision.
Why I am so excited about Flutter
As a former web and native app developer, getting started

with Flutter was truly awesome. I know it’s been told before
but the immense power and productivity you get with
instant stateful Hot Reload was mind-blowing to me.  

I remember thinking back on the days with native iOS
development, where I was pulling my hair out every time  
I had to rebuild my app manually through Xcode to see

changes propagate.
Furthermore, the fact that it’s written in Dart makes it very
approachable for anyone in my opinion. You’re able to write
less code and share everything almost between platforms.

In our case, from the first line of Flutter code that was
written in March 2018, until we were finished with  

s t o r y
the app – including an entire redesign and adding a bunch  
of new features underway – it took only 2.5 months. This
included both the learning curve of Dart as well as the entire

F l u t t e r
rewrite from scratch for both frontend and backend – with
0% code reuse from our previous implementation. 
Standing on the other side of the rewrite I can hands down
say it was the best decision we’ve ever made for our
M y
platform. Not only are we able to maintain incredibly fast
and extremely confident release cycles, but also we
haven’t ONCE had to do a platform-specific implementation.
Our crash rates are down tenfold, and our users are
happier than ever. 

That being said, Flutter also has its natural shortcomings here
and there. One of the biggest for me is the lacking support
of being able to compile Apple Watch and tvOS apps out

of the box. This requires Bitcode support which Flutter
doesn’t have at this time.
To sum up 
So in summation – Flutter is extremely awesome,  
and I cannot express my excitement for where the framework

s t o r y
is heading as a whole. Soon we’ll be able to support  
a nearly 100% shared codebase across both mobile  
and web with Hummingbird being showcased later this
year.
F l u t t e r
But you should also know your project limitations.  
Take a look at what your project requires and see if Flutter is
a fit. If you do decide to give it a try, I can assure you won’t be

M y
disappointed!

Watermaniac
App for tracking drinking water
With Watermaniac users can track how much
water they have drunk every day.
App on Google Play | Developer’s website
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Watermaniac | 51

”
If one day there is a big iOS or Android update  
that breaks half of the features we have implemented  
with Flutter, it might be devastating.
Artur Rymarz
Creator of Watermaniac, Software Engineer at Intive
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Artur Rymarz
Creator of Watermaniac, Software Engineer at Intive
Why Flutter?
My journey with Flutter started with the willingness to create
an application which I could publish later on the Store. When
you think of it, rather no one wants to skip half of the market
s t o r y
and release the application on either Google Play or App
Store, right?  
I think that was the major reason for me to give Flutter a try.  
F l u t t e r
I just didn’t have enough resources to develop my app
natively on both iOS and Android platforms. Probably this
is also something that gives headaches to small startups
which just cannot afford hiring two teams to work on both

M y
platforms simultaneously. 
I wasn’t sure if it’s a good choice to go for either React Native
(which is already quite a stable tool) or something completely
new and still in Beta at that time. But I had a feeling Flutter
might be a big thing in the software industry, and I’m
really pleased I trusted myself. I do not regret a single
minute I spent on learning Google's Flutter.

Was it a good choice? 
Flutter is simple to learn. Even if in your team there is no
single developer specialized in it, the cost of getting training
for the ones willing to learn it should be quite low.  
I’m not sure about the maintenance costs yet, though.  
It might seem to be lower in most scenarios, but if one day
there is a big iOS/Android update that breaks half of  

the features we have implemented it might be
s t o r y
devastating (especially if there is a lot of dependencies to
plugins abandoned by their authors). 
Either way, in my opinion, Flutter is a great choice for

F l u t t e r
startups with a lower budget, although native iOS and
Android apps should always perform better  
(if written correctly) – so for apps where performance is
critical, I would stick to native solutions.

M y
As a developer, I really enjoyed writing an app in Flutter
comparing to React Native which I gave a shot once and
disliked it after a few hours. Creating simple and advanced
UIs is so joyful I’m thinking about porting the same approach

to Swift by creating a library for that.
On the downside, Flutter is still a fairly fresh SDK developed

by Google, so we can be sure about the future for Android  
(or its replacements).
However, there will probably always be smaller or bigger
issues with the iOS, like a different look compared to native  
– if Apple decides to refresh it, Flutter will have to be updated
as well.  
Thankfully, it's an open-source project so when a few small
things were missing while my app development, I simply

s t o r y
contributed to the code by adding what I needed, and I think
contributing in such a big project is a great opportunity

to learn and grow your skills. 
F l u t t e r
On top of that, there is a Flare created by 2D – a tool for
creating vector designs and animations – which can be

easily imported into Flutter project. If you are an indie
developer or a company without a UX/UI Designer in  

M y
the team you can breathe life into your app on your own.
To sum up
I am currently writing another app in Flutter. I recommend

this technology to everyone who has some time to spare  
and wants to learn a great new tool. It’s worth it since, who
knows, maybe someday it will replace Android/Kotlin?

!56
Shopping
Xianyu, Alibaba
m-commerce app
Alibaba, the world’s biggest online commerce
company, having tens of millions of users  
in total, used Flutter to create a beautiful app

experience for iOS and Android on their
Xianyu app. It has 50M+ downloads, and more
than 10 millions users every day.
App on App Store | App on Google Play
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Xianyu, Alibaba | 57

”
Developing in Dart with just one code for two platforms  
was different from the habits we used to have,  
but we fell in love with it as soon as we tried it out.
Bing Sun
Developer at Alibaba Group
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Bing Sun
Developer at Alibaba Group
Pros of Flutter 
We were targeting at searching out a high-effective solution
to minimize the difference between Android and iOS  
with basic SDK.  

s t o r y
In 2017 we discovered Flutter, and we were immediately
intrigued by its possibilities when it comes to UX – including
high FPS and smooth UI. But, above all, Flutter was  
F l u t t e r
an incredible time-saver. It allowed us to use a single
codebase which makes the maintenance of our app much

easier and faster. 
M y
Because of tens of millions of users we had, we could not
build a new app from the very beginning, so we started

implementing Flutter features incrementally, incorporating
them with our apps. The ItemDetail page – the most
crucial, complex and frequently visited section – is run
through a single codebase on Android and iOS using Flutter.
What is more, developing in Dart with just one code for two
platforms was different from the old habits we used to have,

but we fell in love with it as soon as we tried it out. What else
can be more fascinating than seeing the results right
away while editing your code? 
Yep, we like Hot Reload and Dart, which are so easy to get
that the frontend developers would ask “Are you sure this is
not a Client-side code? They look like Javascript + CSS, I mean

even I would like to give it a go!” 
In no time, we made elegant screens. Wicked!

s t o r y
Challenges
On the other hand, using Flutter in native projects brought

F l u t t e r
also some difficulties. Here are the main problems we were
encountering:  
1. Adding Flutter to existing projects

M y
Before Flutter was in Alpha version, it was not intended to be
used in an existing native project.
So while developing Xianyu, we needed to provide a hybrid
mode of Flutter and native, and ensure supporting tools  
for efficient collaboration under this mode. We were the first
one who did this. The technical solution of Xianyu was  

a milestone for Flutter team, making the hybrid mode an
important feature in this technology.

2. SDK 
When Flutter was still in Beta, we introduced it into our
project to try it out, and we encountered a lot of problems
with Flutter SDK. That forced us to delve into Flutter's

principles. After three months, we could basically solve all of
the issues by ourselves and then feedback to Google. 
At the end of the day, thanks to solving all these problems

our team grew up quickly, and thus we have contributed to
the improvement of Flutter.

s t o r y

F l u t t e r
M y

HuYu
App for paid surveys & rewards
With HuYu app, users share their shopping
data by scanning grocery receipts and giving
their opinion in surveys. The data  
is anonymized for market research. In return,

users receive points that can be redeemed for
gift cards and vouchers. Developed by The
App Business for dunnhumby.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | HuYu | 62

”
We were amazed by the speed in which we got the app  
to market (16 weeks).
Karyn Mukerjee
dunnhumby’s Director of Data Innovation
!63
Karyn Mukerjee
dunnhumby’s Director of Data Innovation
Why Flutter? 
Speed to market was a key goal for us as we wanted to
release the first iteration of HuYu quickly in order to start
gathering data and learn what worked best for users. We also
s t o r y
needed to assess the potential of the data for generating
insights for retailers and brands. Our app development

partner TAB (The App Business) recommended Flutter as  
the best solution for speed and weighing up the benefits, so

F l u t t e r
we decided it was definitely worth trying. 
Was it a good choice?

 
M y
Everyone close to the project has been amazed by the speed
in which we got the app to market (16 weeks). It also
encouraged a spirit of innovation with the project – we were

brave with our choice of Flutter (it was only in Beta when we
started using it!), but we made lots of decisions that were
bold but ultimately pragmatic. Could it help us go better/
faster/cheaper? And we had challenging deadlines so we just
went for it.

Pros and cons of Flutter in your project 
We had to overcome some resistance from native devotees
but luckily the business gave us the freedom to make  
the choice to use Flutter and it did what we needed it to do.

New developers coming onto the project have found it easy
to get to grips with, and with the benefit of hindsight we 
would likely make the same choice again.

s t o r y
F l u t t e r
M y

”
Complex integrations with the host platform  
may diminish the benefits of using Flutter.
Swav Kulinski
Lead Engineer at The App Business
!66
Swav Kulinski
Lead Engineer at The App Business
Flutter played a crucial role in the HuYu project. One of the key
changes we noticed was the interaction between developers
and designers. Native apps tend to have a long design-develop

s t o r y
cycle. At TAB, we have to polish and approve the designs with
the client to the point that there will be no significant changes

to the UI once development has commenced.  
F l u t t e r
Native UI toolkits are more time consuming to use.
Specifically, modifying UI once implemented is much more

difficult. However, this is no longer true with the help of Flutter. 
M y
Flutter enables changes to be made and applied easily and
quickly. This means prototyping can begin early, with quick
adaptations to design along the way. The end result is a UX

which is much more mature as it’s a product of faster
iterations between the designer and developer.
The engineers and designers at TAB who worked on HuYu have
had a joyful experience working with Flutter and are excited by

the prospect of using it again on future projects.

Some of them even expressed the opinion that they don't
want to go back to the native style of development at all. 
Was it much different than native app

development or using React Native?  
Flutter is a significant departure from the conventional way  
of building a mobile experience. Native development has  
a much longer development cycle code change -> compile.
The most significant visible difference is that Flutter allows

the code to be written while the application is running.
s t o r y
Having this instant feedback not only enabled us to
implement features faster but also to learn Flutter quickly.

F l u t t e r
The main benefit Flutter has over native and React

Native is the lack of platform constraints. Flutter is not
muzzled by platform UI because it doesn't use it. It renders
everything by itself. You are free to build the best UX without

M y
compromise. It is the main difference between Flutter and
React Native. 
This approach has a nice 'perk' which comes with owning its
rendering pipeline. Native UI toolkits are quite fragmented
because of the system versions. For example, Android has
introduced many animation frameworks to the SDK over  

the years.

As you try to support older system versions, you learn the
hard way that it’s not easy to implement animations which
work flawlessly on all versions. You have to degrade the user

experience. Flutter doesn't have this problem as it’s not
dependant on the version of the system it runs on.  
Pros & cons of Flutter from developer’s

perspective 
Flutter shines the most in projects with very bespoke UI

and demanding UX. This advantage will diminish if the focus  
s t o r y
of the app is not on how it feels and looks. Flutter
communicates with the host system using channels.  
They require implementation in the platform-specific language. 

F l u t t e r
For everyday needs like Bluetooth, Camera, or Google Maps
you will find existing plugins, but for everything which  
cannot be found in the Dart libraries, you will have  

M y
to implement your own plugin. Creating one or two

integrations is not a massive effort, but when your project
requires a dozen of them, then it might be just not worth it. 
At TAB, when considering a new project, we carefully look  

into how intensive integrations might be. Complex
integrations with the host platform may diminish the
benefits of using Flutter.  

Will you use Flutter in your next projects? 
We use it currently, and we are working with many clients to
find new opportunities. Clients are more likely to hear about
Flutter now. Observing major players like Alibaba using

Flutter – the future looks promising.

s t o r y
F l u t t e r
M y

!71
Music
Topline
Music recording app
The app lets artists record and save their song
ideas wherever they are. It was showcased  

at Google I/O 2018 event. “Music App of
The Year” and “UX of the Year” at UK App
Awards 2018. Designed & developed by
Miquido.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Topline | 72

”
Flutter itself is showing great potential for implementing
business logic for apps, writing UI and SDK’s.  
However, before it goes as a standard, development
community needs to appreciate the new SDK and transform
it to business value.
Paweł Zieliński
Head of Marketing at Miquido
!73
Paweł Zieliński
Head of Marketing at Miquido
Why Flutter? 
Miquido has been working with Abbey Road Studios for a while
now, and after releasing an iOS app, it was a natural choice  
to start thinking about the app for Android users. After a short
s t o r y
research, we came up with the idea to use Flutter. 
What is more, Google invited us to make our app available
before the Google I/O 2018. Once launched, it'll be featured

F l u t t e r
during the conference and get global publicity. And we did it!
 
When we started the development, Flutter SDK was in Alpha
version – which means it wasn’t stable. We chose a cross-tech

M y
team consisting of frontend and Android developers.
Was it a good choice?  
Flutter improved and boosted our app’s development.  
The creation of the Topline MVP took Miquido ten weeks.
Long working hours, extreme intellectual effort, facing

unfamiliar issues – it was well worth it! We expand our
knowledge immensely during the process.

Even though the design looks really simple and user-friendly,
the app structure itself is very complicated. There were
plenty of challenges involved, connected directly to the new

technology. Fortunately, there were also plenty of cases that
the Flutter team helped us solve. 
Pros of Flutter 
• Flutter has a wide range of widgets which are ready to

go, customizable, and perform just like you expect them
to: they are fast and pretty.

s t o r y
• One of the most revolutionary features that helped our
developers improve faster is the Hot Reload – thanks to

F l u t t e r
this solution you can notice your mistakes much faster

and correct them in the real time.
• Last but not least, Flutter helps you optimize and build
an APK for your release, giving better performance

M y
and significantly reducing the file size.  
To sum up 
Creating the app with Flutter was a challenge, but we made it,
and we loved it! 
From our business perspective, it was a great project which

took Miquido to Google I/O 2018, Flutter Live in London, and
deepens our collaboration with Google.

Flutter itself is showing great potential for implementing
business logic for apps, writing UI and SDK’s. However,
before it goes as a standard, development community needs

to appreciate the new SDK and transform it to business value.

s t o r y
F l u t t e r
M y

Music Tutor
Learn to read music app
With the app, users can learn to read sheet
music and improve their sight-reading skills.  
It helps to develop speed and accuracy  

in reading music sheets by identifying music
notes in timed sessions.
App on Google Play | Website
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Music Tutor | 77

”
I was able to bring out the product to the market  
quickly and I have plans to use Flutter for a few of my  
upcoming projects.
Bijoy Thangaraj
CEO at JSplash Studios
!78
Bijoy Thangaraj
CEO at JSplash Studios
Why Flutter? 
The first release of Music Tutor was done for iOS devices alone.
I, being the sole programmer/designer of Music Tutor, with
primary experience in iOS development, was looking for a

s t o r y
cross-platform solution/framework to develop the Android
version of Music Tutor so that the framework could be used to

develop some of our upcoming mobile apps.
 
F l u t t e r
After some research and evaluation of such frameworks (main
alternative consideration being React Native), I finally zeroed in

on Flutter. 
M y
Was it a good choice? 
It was indeed a good choice – mainly because I was able to
bring out the product to the market quickly. I have plans to

use Flutter for a few of my upcoming projects. 
Cons of Flutter 
• The main drawback of Flutter is that it is widgets based,
not all low-level functions are available as widgets at this

point. If an app uses any of the specialized APIs it is
likely that a widget for that is not available yet.
• Currently there is no drag-and-drop based visual IDE

for laying out the widgets. It’s all through code now. 
Pros of Flutter 
• Relatively easy to develop and maintain (single code base).
• Native performance.
s t o r y

F l u t t e r
M y

!81
Entertainment
InKino
Showtime browser for Finnkino theatres
inKino allows users to search for movies and
showtimes in Finnkino cinemas, see its details
and buy or reserve tickets.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | InKino | 82

”
The widgets and developer APIs that Flutter provided  
were sane, well-thought, and predictable.
Iiro Krankka
Creator of open source inKino app, 
Senior software engineer at Reflectly
!83
Iiro Krankka
Creator of open source inKino app,  
Senior software engineer
Why Flutter? 
My first contact with Flutter was in May 2017 when I stumbled
upon a talk about it by Eugenio Marletti and Sebastiano Poggi
(editorial note: Google Developer Experts). And quite surprisingly,  

s t o r y
I ended up loving it, which is something I wouldn't have
thought given my background as a native mobile developer

for several years. 
F l u t t e r
As I had been playing around with Flutter for a while, a year ago
I decided that it was finally a time to do a complete hobby
project with it. I needed an aesthetic and a snappy app for

checking Finnish movie showtimes on the go. 
M y
Since this was purely a hobby project I had an unlimited time
frame. It was a perfect opportunity to try out and noodle

around with different ideas on how to put together a good
Flutter app. Later on, this evolved into an open source sample
project that now has code sharing between native Flutter
apps and progressive web app counterpart.

For my app, Flutter was a perfect choice. I was able to publish
inKino within a couple of weeks to both app stores, after only
working on it in my free time after work. 
The widgets and developer APIs that Flutter provided
were sane, well-thought, and predictable. There was no
need for boilerplate code such as list adapters, and

everything was nicely documented. 
s t o r y
I also quite liked the fact that Dart had support for JIT  
and AOT builds, so I could Hot Reload and iterate faster on

development mode, but still ship a natively-compiled and fast
F l u t t e r
release build when it was time to publish the app.
Cons of Flutter 
The only disadvantage I really could think about at the time

M y
was that there weren’t that many resources or
established guidelines on how to structure your Flutter
apps. There weren't bigger open source apps to learn from
regarding testing, best practices, architecture, and folder
organization either. I came up with a lot of solutions on my

own. It didn't matter that much since it was a hobby project
anyway. However, if I were working on a project with a limited
budget and timeframe, this would've been a problem.

Hamilton
App for Hamilton musical fans
The official app of the hit Broadway musical
– Hamilton. It includes daily lotteries, exclusive
news, videos, a trivia game, merchandise

store, and much more. Check out the article
How the Hamilton app uses Flutter to do more
for its fans.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Hamilton | 86

!87
Sport
Top Goals
App for soccer fans
Follow your favourite teams live, react to the
latest news, create your own polls and more.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Top Goals | 88

”
At first I was skeptical about Flutter, mostly because of  
the language and the fact that it doesn't use native widgets.
Victor Bonnet
Creator of Top Goals app, Senior Software Engineer
!89
Victor Bonnet
Creator of Top Goals app, Senior Software Engineer
I decided to build my first app using Flutter right after they
announced it at Google IO in 2017. As I am a soccer fan,  
I wanted to build an app with customizable look and feel,
where we can easily follow the news, have a quick access to
match results and standings, and have a forum with polls. 

s t o r y
Flutter was in a very early stage at that time and IDE integration
was not as good as it is now. Nonetheless, I ended up with  

F l u t t e r
a first version working on iOS and Android very quickly. 
I have to admit that at first I was skeptical about the
framework, mostly because of the language and the fact that  
it doesn't use native widgets.

M y
However, with a few trainings and a bit of effort I quickly
became more experienced in building screens and I was highly
surprised about the performance and I also loved playing with
animations.
Now I am able to build an app with Flutter faster than  
I would do with native solutions for a single platform.

The best part about Flutter is its very active community.  
There are plenty of tutorials, videos, StackOverflow's answers,
etc.
I will definitely use Flutter for future projects. I am also using
it at work for developing prototypes. As a mobile developer  
I highly recommend Flutter. At least, give it a try.

s t o r y
F l u t t e r
M y

EntrenaPro
App to finding trainers & sports centres
The app connects athletes with sports coaches
and sports centres. It allows users to look  
for training in their area.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | EntrenaPro | 92

”
I perfectly remember the moment when we decided 
to choose Flutter evaluating the possibility of creating own
components. That sounded risky but fascinating,  
so our wilder side won.
Pedro Moreno
Product Manager in EntrenaPro project,  
Digital Product Designer
!93
Pedro Moreno
Product Manager in EntrenaPro project,
Digital Product Designer
Why Flutter?
I wouldn’t say we chose Flutter for EntrenaPro just because of  
the tight schedule, but fast development time was something that
seduced us because we wanted to deliver our app in 6 months. 

s t o r y
As in every project, defining the specifications was crucial to
evaluate if every feature can be created with the all-new Flutter.
Finding any obstacle would probably prevent us from reaching

F l u t t e r
our goal on time and would raise doubts as to whether Flutter
is a good choice.
But at the moment when were beginning the development,

M y
we had no reference to check if we can build everything we
needed with Flutter. Our app is destined for two very different
roles (Athletes and Sport Coaches) and it includes several
features for each of them (payment bridge, stripe integration,
sport bonus buy/selling, shared calendars to book sessions,
and notifications to manage every invitation or request).
 
As a non-technical person, I perfectly remember the moment
when we decided to choose Flutter evaluating the possibility  
of creating own components.

That sounded risky but fascinating, so our wilder side won
and we chose Flutter. We wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.  
I strongly recommend any junior developer to play with and
explore Flutter’s possibilities before beginning any huge
project – even this process of learning can be really delightful.
Cons of Flutter
From my perspective of Project Manager who is into UX
Design, I am still missing more communication from Flutter

s t o r y
team to explain other colleagues (Product / UX designers) the
numerous possibilities this framework has, and why it is
worth to apply Flutter to some ideas (advantages in deploying

F l u t t e r
time, good UI resources, etc.).
I think that new technology and frameworks should be
introduced not only to developers’ community but also  

M y
to the people who deal with both Design and IT roles
every day, so also to visual professionals who should

participate in choosing technology and tools.

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Finance
Cryptomaniac Pro
Cryptocurrencies signal app
The app gives users information about  
the most accurate cryptocurrency signals,
news about cryptocurrencies, the service

record of the portfolio, and more.
App on Google Play
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Cryptomaniac Pro | 97

”
With Flutter we can deliver an app within less than  
2 months which is 40% faster than development with native
SDK, and certainly without sacrificing quality.
Ardiansyah Putra
Creator of Cryptomaniac Pro,  
Mobile Developer at Eunomia International
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Ardiansyah Putra
Creator of Cryptomaniac Pro,  
Mobile Developer at Eunomia International
Why Flutter? 
Actually, we're betting on Flutter when we decided to use it
since its Alpha release. We are only a small team and of course
with limited resources and time so Flutter should be suitable

s t o r y
for our requirements since it promises fast development. 

F l u t t e r
I can tell everyone that Flutter is a really good choice. It saves  
a lots of time on development cycle, we can deliver an app

within less than 2 months which is 40% faster than
development with native SDK as we used before, and certainly

M y
without sacrificing quality. 
Pros & cons of Flutter 
Some advantages of using Flutter that I did not get in other
technologies are: 
• Speed in development.
• Performance that feels like native.
• Pixel perfect. We don't need to worry about how Flutter
appears on various devices.

• The security of the source code is maintained because
the Dart code will be compiled into native binary. 
Well, every technology has its own pros and cons, so does
Flutter. As an early adopters we face challenges with this
bleeding edge technology, mostly lack of troubleshootings
and plugins availability so we had to build it from scratch.  
But it is just an old story when we talk about it now, less than
1 year after its first Alpha release everything changed, we see
the enthusiasm of community is increasing drastically. 

s t o r y
Developer's perspective
Although there was a vacuum for several years I was highly

F l u t t e r
interested in the concept offered by Flutter since its name
was still "Sky Dart". Fortunately, shortly after the Alpha
version of Flutter was released, the necessary toolings were
easy to use, there were no significant obstacles in learning

M y
Flutter from the start since its learning curve is very easy.  
Although many developers don't like Dart, I don't think there
are any difficulties if you are familiar with JavaScript or Java.
Flutter vs. React Native
We will not get speed in developing applications in native
technology compared to development with Flutter, that's  

the fact. For performance that resembles native technology

but with less time, all developers must consider Flutter.  
I've tried React Native before Flutter. This framework is a very

good one and is supported by a large and growing
community. Anyone who is familiar with web development
usually does not find difficulties in learning React Native, but
in some aspects this framework cannot fulfill the
requirements of our apps development, including the lack  

of performance and security of the code from the risk  
of reverse engineering.
s t o r y
What’s next?
We have finished 4 apps published on Google Play store and

F l u t t e r
we are currently building another app that will be released on
March 2019, all of those apps are built with Flutter.

M y

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Education
School planner
App for students & teachers
Full-fledged homework management app  
for students and teachers. It allows users to
add information about their timetable,

homework, grades, exams, tests, enables
sharing notes about them with other students,
and set reminders.
App on Google Play
Top Apps Made with Flutter | School planner |103

”
I am not good at designing but with Flutter it is simple.
Felix Weuthen
Creator of School planner app
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Felix Weuthen
Creator of School planner app
Why Flutter? 
I started developing the School planner app almost three years
ago, and at the beginning, it was mainly for my personal use at
school. I wanted an app which I can use together with my

s t o r y
schoolmates to manage homework and exams.
I chose to use Firebase as a backend and for authentication,
that really simplified the development. I was developing the

F l u t t e r
app with Android Studio and Java, later with Kotlin.  
It worked well, but I kept enhancing the app and thereby

things were getting more and more complicated. For
example it took around 3 minutes for Gradle to build with  

M y
the restart of the application. Features like Instant Reloading
didn't work because of some bugs and this was really painful.
But last year in February I discovered Flutter and rewrote  
the app from scratch. I have to say it was the best decision  
I could have made. It is just amazing that I can reload the app
in less than a second. But there are many other great

advantages.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | School planner |105

Pros of Flutter 
One of the biggest is the cross-platform aspect. I can release
the same app with the same features to Android and iOS.
This is very important for a social app like mine. As there

are many students who use an iPhone or iPad, they can now
finally share homework and exams with the whole group.  
The networking effect was huge and increased the popularity
and downloads rate of the app.

s t o r y
In a few weeks I am going to reach 50.000 downloads in  
the Play Store with a peak of over 4.000 active users daily.
This is a huge milestone for me as I learned programming
by myself and created the app alone in my free time. Cross-

F l u t t e r
platform development is really fun with Flutter, and I hope to
release the app for desktop and maybe web soon.
What I also like is the widget architecture in Flutter. There is

M y
no markup language for views. Instead, everything is written
in Dart. While it might be confusing at the beginning, I think it
is really helpful. I don't have to write Intents or have
unnecessary lifecycle management.
While Dart as a language itself might have seemed a step
backwards compared to Kotlin, I still really like it way more than
Typescript or even Javascript. Dart is simple and logical, and
async programming is very intuitive with Futures and Streams.

Still, features like Null-Safety would be very appreciated.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | School planner | 106

Cons of Flutter 
In almost one year of development with Flutter I also
experienced some issues, though. For example, targeting API
28 in Android is still a struggle as there are bugs which

prevent the app from opening the keyboard.
To sum up
Concluding, I think every developer should at least take a look
at Flutter. It is an excellent opportunity to build more reliable,

s t o r y
fast, and beautiful apps. I am not good at designing but with
Flutter it is simple. And fun fact – the number of crashes and
ANR's decreased a lot, probably as there are no more weird

F l u t t e r
bugs with platform or manufacture dependent functions.

M y
Top Apps Made with Flutter | School planner | 107

!108
Maps & navigation

SLMC
Station La Moins Chère is fuel price app
SLMC allows residents of France to quickly
check the price of fuel nearby or near the city
a user is searching. The app is available only  

in France.
App on Google Play
Top Apps Made with Flutter | SLMC |109

”
As much as I like React Native, I will use Flutter for  
my next projects (if it's not a game app).  
I want to follow the framework's evolution.
Simon Gradaive
Creator of SLMC, Web and Mobile App Developer
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Simon Gradaive
Creator of SLMC, Web and Mobile App Developer
I had already known Apache Cordova and React Native, and  
I was curious to learn a third way to build a Java-less app.
Flutter was new (my project started in July 2018), and seemed
promising, so I tried. 
s t o r y
I think it was a good choice for many reasons :
• I was able to deliver MVP much faster than I expected.

F l u t t e r
• I never had to worry about performance and fluency  
of the application. It worked nice from the beginning to
the end, even on budget phones.
• Debugging was easy, and the integration in Android

M y
Studio is nearly perfect.
• What surprised me, Dart is a very pleasant language.  
I didn't know it before, but after a few days of work with
Flutter, I already preferred Dart to JS.  
If you are a React Native developer and hesitate to use Flutter,
you should know that the most significant change you can
expect is the lack of JSX (or I should say: DSX – for Dart). It is
intuitive and easy to learn, so it won’t be an obstacle.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | SLMC |111

In summary, I had a very positive experience with Flutter.  
As much as I like React Native, I will use Flutter for my next
projects (if it's not a game app) because I want to follow  

the framework's evolution.

s t o r y
F l u t t e r
M y
Top Apps Made with Flutter | SLMC | 112

!113
Lifestyle
Pawfect Match
App for animals adoption
The app for matching users with homeless
animals in their area (UK). It brings together
adoptable pets from shelters across  

the country and gives them the best possible
chance for finding their new homes.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Pawfect Match |114

!115
Travel
Flydirekt
App for standby travelers
With the app users can find direct flights all
over the world and get availability forecast
& loads to prepare for their standby travels.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Flydirekt |116

!117
Business
Google Ads
Advertising manager app
The app helps Google Ads customers keep
their ad campaigns running smoothly on  
the go. They can view campaign stats, update

bids and budgets, get real-time alerts and
notifications, call a Google expert or act on
suggestions to improve their campaigns.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Google Ads | 118

AppTree
Enterprise app client
AppTree is an enterprise app client that
enables you to use common business app
functions such as labor entry, audits, data

collection, inspections, requests, workflow,
and approvals with existing enterprise
software data.
App on Google Play | Developer website
Top Apps Made with Flutter | AppTree | 119

Last but not least  
insight from a Flutter
expert
Before we sum up this ebook, we want to put some icing on  
the cake. I would like to share with you one final insight of  
an expert. He is the Founder and President at Very Good Ventures
– company that developed a selection of Flutter apps – one being  
for Hamilton Musical.

”
Cross-platform solutions have been around for a long time,
but Flutter is the first one to do it right.
David DeRemer
Founder and President at Very Good Ventures
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David DeRemer
Founder and President at Very Good Ventures
Why Flutter? 
Our team has been developing mobile apps since the early
days of the App Store. Working with clients to develop apps,
one of the biggest questions was always: iOS, Android or

s t o r y
both? This dilemma has major consequences for UX/UI,
user base, business model, and team development.  
In most cases, companies are too budget constrained to

F l u t t e r
develop for both iOS and Android from the start unless  
the concept is proven. Additionally, the long term

management and team costs are onerous – every change
must be done twice by developers with two different skill

M y
sets.
So, we’ve always been monitoring multi-platform solutions
that could not only reduce the cost and time to build mobile
apps, but also reduce the burden of creating an app for iOS
and Android users both in the near and long term.
Flutter is the first solution we saw that really had  
the potential to be what we wanted it to be.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | David DeRemer | 122

Pros of Flutter
Flutter is absolutely a choice that every CTO or mobile

developer should be considering.
First off, most users don’t know that a Flutter app is not
fully native. Previous cross-platform frameworks didn’t feel

native enough. Flutter’s renderer is very fast and it does
not have the same limitations for performance or
security that we feel plague other frameworks (looking at

s t o r y
you JavaScript). Additionally, Flutter’s coding style and
developer tools were easily learned and embraced by our

team.
F l u t t e r
It is particularly well suited for new apps (i.e., it is not as
good for integrating into existing app projects) that don’t

require deep hardware or OS integrations. For instance, if
you’re building a game or an AR app, you are likely better off

M y
building native apps.
But, if you’re building something that is basically a collection

of views and forms (e.g., an e-commerce app), then going with
Flutter is a no-brainer. It does everything you need it to do.

Cons of Flutter
The biggest downsides to Flutter are:
• Platform risk 
While Flutter is an open source project, if Google
decided to no longer support it, it would be
catastrophic. That said since Flutter hit Beta, Google
has only ramped up its Flutter efforts, illustrated by

Flutter’s role at Google IO ’18 and the recent Flutter Live
s t o r y
event. I just don’t see a world where Google walks
away from Flutter at this point.
• Size of the developer community 

F l u t t e r
The second issue is the size and experience of  
the developer community. The labor pool is just very
small at the moment. Dart is not a very common
language, so it doesn’t have the existing developer

M y
community that React Native does.  
Additionally, not too many large-scale Flutter apps have
shipped and been in production very long. So, a lot of
companies that want to build Flutter apps or hire Flutter

developers are having hard time building teams.  
The good news is that the community is growing
exponentially, and the excitement is real.

Anecdotally, we have observed that the developers that
are most excited about Flutter tend to be mobile
developers that have deep experience already in iOS or

Android – so once they get a couple of projects under
their belt, the expertise of the community will
skyrocket.
Developer’s perspective
For Flutter developers themselves, the benefits are palpable.
Nobody on my team would rather write an Android app

s t o r y
in Java or Kotlin at this point. In fact, they might threaten to
quit if we forced them. Flutter is actually fun for
developers. Dart is easy to learn and makes sense quickly.

F l u t t e r
Perhaps most importantly, our Flutter developers think that
they can create an app faster than they can for a single native
iOS or Android app.

M y
Consider that — not only do you get two apps, but you get
it done faster and with a happier dev team. Perhaps  
the most exciting thing recently for developers is the fact that
Flutter is extending beyond iPhones and Android phones.  
The recent announcement of Hummingbird and Flutter

Desktop Embedding is a major game changer.
In fact, we were able to run our existing Flutter app as  
a desktop Mac app with no code changes in about 10
minutes.

That blew our teams’ mind as they realized they are all
now desktop Mac developers because of Flutter.
The tradeoff for developers is that Flutter and Dart are still
rare skills. I think it makes job mobility a bit harder if you
want to change roles and no longer work with Flutter.
Additionally, Flutter is still very early, and so there are
occasionally some bumps in the road and bugs that we find
in the framework. But those get fixed quickly, and it’s grown
s t o r y
leaps and bounds since we originally started working with it
two years ago.

F l u t t e r
The last tradeoff is important for both Flutter developers and
business managers – to create good Flutter apps, you also
need to know how to write native iOS and Android apps.
Flutter can’t do everything, so eventually you need to drop to

native to accomplish what you need. You also need to be
M y
familiar with the build tools and app stores of both iOS and
Android to successfully ship your apps.
To sum up
In summary, we think Flutter is the future. There are
simply too many benefits for both business owners and
developers from being able to write once and deploy to both

iOS and Android users.

If you think about the economic cost of duplicating functions
just to reach users on different OS’s, the pressure is just too
significant not to help Flutter succeed.
Cross-platform solutions have been around for a long
time, but Flutter is the first one to do it right. I don’t think
it’ll be the last solution out there, but for anyone developing
mobile apps it is a real boon. It is not perfect, but it is worth

consideration alongside native for all new apps at this point.
s t o r y
In our experience, when we compare the pros and cons of
Flutter versus native, Flutter wins every time (except

games and apps that require unsupported hardware
F l u t t e r
integrations as a core feature).
In fact, since we shipped our first Flutter app, we have only
used Flutter ever since.

M y

Wrap Up
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As you can see, many of the experts we have interviewed
believe that Flutter is the future of mobile app development.

Not only can Flutter speed up the development process,  
but it can also reduce project costs. 
That said…
• If you want to develop an app with minimal UI
• If your app is specifically designed for just one platform
• Or if your app requires multiple interactions with an OS 
Then, it is probably better you choose native app

U p
development. As anything that has to talk to an operating

system should be developed separately for the system  
W r a p
in question.
Still, before you make any decisions, be sure to check Dart Pub
as there’s a genuine possibility that someone, somewhere,

created a custom package just for you – with your OS-specific
code. 
In all other cases, it is worth to give Flutter a try.
We’ll always recommend that you, yourself, should check
whether Flutter is the right solution for your project.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Wrap Up | 129

We’re confident that the stories in this ebook will help you
come to the best conclusion. Drop us a line if you have any

questions or want to talk about your project.  
Before we sign off…

 
A final word of thanks to all the developers and app
founders who contributed to this ebook: without your time,
effort and support – your knowledge and experience – others
wouldn’t now have the benefit of reading through what we
genuinely believe is a hyper-valuable resource.

U p

W r a p
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Wrap Up | 130

Resources
Google Developers channel on Youtube
Flutter showcase
An open list of apps built with Flutter on itsallwidgets.com
Photos
Social Networking: photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Photo & video: photo by rawpixel on Unsplash
Health & Fitness: photo by Angelos Michalopoulos on Unsplash
Shopping: photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels 
Music: photo by Seth Macey on Unsplash
Entertainment: photo by Dc Lovensky on Unsplash

Sport: photo by bruce mars on Unsplash
Finance: photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
Education: photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
Maps and navigation: photo by rawpixel on Unsplash
Lifestyle: photo by Erik Brolin on Unsplash

Travel: photo by Guilherme Stecanella on Unsplash
Business: photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash
Note: logos from the following apps – n8, Hamilton, Topline, HuYu,
Xianyu, Pawfect Match, Flydirekt, AppTree – come from their
respective page on either the Google Play or the Apple App, Store.
Top Apps Made with Flutter | Resources | 131

About Droids On Roids
Droids On Roids is a world-class software house, building

mobile and web apps for both UK and US companies since
2011.
We offer full-stack mobile, web and backend services:
• iOS & Android development (native & Flutter),
• Web development (frontend & backend).
Our services also include: Product Design Workshops,  
Product Design, Quality Assurance, and Project Maintenance.
We are always available to discuss your specific project needs. 
Feel free to send us an email or
ESTIMATE PROJECT
www.thedroidsonroids.com
Top Apps Made with Flutter | About Droids On Roids | 132

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Designed by Amanda Sala

Please note: we have sorted the content according to

categories – the order of the applications is related neither

• n8 – app for ﬁnding events 34

• Watermaniac – app for tracking drinking water 51

• Topline – music recording app 72

• InKino – showtime browser for Finnkino theatres 82

• Hamilton – app for Hamilton musical fans 86

• Top Goals – app for soccer fans 88

• EntrenaPro – app to ﬁnding trainers & sports centres 92

• Cryptomaniac Pro – cryptocurrencies signal app 97

• School planner – app for students & teachers 103

• Station La Moins Chère – fuel price app 109

• Pawfect Match – app for animals adoption 114

• Flydirekt – app for standby travelers 116

• Google Ads – advertising manager app 118

• AppTree – enterprise app client 119

Last but not least insight from a Flutter expert 120

About Droids On Roids 131

In April of last year, when we were ﬁrst researching Flutter

Flashforward to today: two-of-the-three ﬂaws have already

disappeared with the release of Flutter 1.0, which gets me to

thinking: Will Flutter turn the world of app development

After all, we’re witnessing monthly improvements in

the community is always enthusiastic and helpful. So, even

you can count on them.

As we watched more and more apps built with Flutter

appear on the market, it piqued our interest. And we

wanted to look behind-the-scenes – to meet the daredevils

who had decided to take a path less well-trodden.

Watching Flutter Developer Stories on the Google Developers

YouTube channel just gave us an appetite for more.

Top Apps Made with Flutter | Editorial note | 5

Did they achieve everything they wanted on the business

side? And did using Flutter aﬀect the development cycle or

As you can see, we had a lot of questions circling about our

heads, and therein lies the inspiration for this ebook.

We were delighted to have so many enthusiastic responses

were keen to be involved with this project.

First and foremost, they are all pioneers in equal measure:

hungry for knowledge, eager to learn, and open to

sharing their experiences with anyone who’s interested.

We love them for that. We’re so grateful we can now pass on

also compared the solution to React Native.

And answered questions about whether the most common

Top Apps Made with Flutter | Editorial note | 6

“Cross-platform solutions have been around for a long time, but

Flutter is the ﬁrst one to do it right.”

“Flutter is still very early, and so there are occasionally some

bumps in the road (…)”

“From the ﬁrst line of Flutter code, until we were ﬁnished

a bunch of new features underway – it took only

What you’ve just read is only a handful of quotes from

the seventeen stories we’ve collected in this ebook. We hope

they’ll provide inspiration as much as serve as road-signs.

Prepare to delve into the unknown with experienced Flutter

practitioners as your guide.

Top Apps Made with Flutter | Editorial note | 7

Stories by Developers & Business Owners

On December 4, 2018, Google released Flutter 1.0. Check

this video to watch the announcement from Tim Sneath.

What’s more, Google used the same event to launch

Top Apps  

categories – the order of the applications is related neither  

After all, we’re witnessing monthly improvements in  

the community is always enthusiastic and helpful. So, even  

also compared the solution to React Native.  

bumps in the road (…)” 

“From the ﬁrst line of Flutter code, until we were ﬁnished  

a bunch of new features underway – it took only 

What you’ve just read is only a handful of quotes from  

Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK. Complete with  

fast mobile apps – on both Android and iOS platforms  

– with as little overhead as possible.  

be aware of what it is, how it works, and the general  

• A list of the 22 top applications made using Flutter  

• Apps with an original idea and social value  

• Applications with a beautiful UI (e.g. Reﬂectly, HuYu) 

drawer. Hocus pocus...a hero animation. It is that easy and fun. 

Flutter vs. React Native 

Dart which is the language used by Flutter.  

Flutter will be just a walk in a park.  