Fleather’s Future and Vision

[ibrahimdevs]

Hi 👋

First of all, thank you for your great work on this package — it’s refreshing to see a clean and thoughtful approach to rich text editing in Flutter.

I've been using SuperEditor, but over time it became too complex for my use case. The selection logic caused issues, and maintaining both SuperEditor and SuperReader for editable and read-only views felt unnecessarily fragmented and problematic.

When looking for alternatives, I narrowed it down to Fleather and Flutter Quill. Flutter Quill is definitely the more popular option with many contributors, but in practice, it felt bloated — too many features that I don’t need, and performance/stability concerns like broken styling and caret issues when pasting text, even on the latest version. Plus, the lack of native iOS context menu support was a dealbreaker for us.

Fleather, on the other hand, is lightweight, well-structured, and just works. My only initial hesitation was the smaller contributor base — mainly @amantoux and @Amir-P — but it’s clear that two focused and dedicated contributors can deliver a more solid and reliable editor than a larger, less coordinated team.

I believe Flutter needs a rich text editor that:

Is simple and lightweight

Works seamlessly with Flutter’s native paradigms

Prioritizes rock-solid core functionality over feature overload

Fleather feels like the most promising path forward. I hope you continue to build and grow the project with the same focus on quality and simplicity. Please don’t feel pressured to add too many features — keeping it lightweight and reliable is exactly what many of us are looking for.

Thanks again for your hard work!

[Amir-P]

Hi @ibrahimdevs ,

Glad you liked Fleather and thanks for sponsoring the project! You are the first one and it means a lot!

From the very beginning of the project, our focus was on the core functionality, bug-free experience and performance. I think it's going to be more or less the same approach going forward unless we get more contributors willing to add and maintain new high-quality features.

[ibrahimdevs]

Hi @Amir-P,
Glad to hear we're on the same page! 😊

I know the sponsorship isn’t much, but I believe even small contributions matter — it's a way to say thank you and support the great work you’re doing.

If we want a stronger and more reliable Flutter ecosystem, we need to keep supporting and encouraging each other — both through code and community.

Keep it up, and thanks again for building Fleather with such care and focus!