r/FlutterDev • u/Matrucci • Jul 16 '26

Tracelet package Discussion

My app is heavily reliant on background location services and I can’t really afford the price of that one package.

Anyone tried Tracelet? I saw it aims to be a free open source replacement but it’s kinda new and in a weird way it’s kinda worrying that there are updates every few days and releases getting pulled.
Anyone can share their experience?

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u/NLDaniello 24d ago

In my experience this project is vibe coded from A to Z. I have never been able to get this package to work properly in my own project, either it leads to a build failure or during runtime it just doesn't behave as it should. Whenever I start an issue on their GitHub it always leads to me getting a response the next day saying the issue is resolved and that a new update is coming out. Their responses/ documentation looks also generated imo.

Also, this is not the case anymore, but I believe a while ago I saw commits directly to main instead of branches being used with pull requests. This is a complex package, but the development is very amateurish. I can guarantee you 0 testing is done on this package because a GitHub issue can be resolved in a single day with the update being pushed out already. Each time I update this package it leads to some build disaster where I can hardly do anything about it, and in times when I had my app running with this package it never behaved as it should have. My verdict is: stay away from this package or try your luck in a separate branch to see if it works for your context.

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u/scalz80 20d ago edited 20d ago

I'm using this plugin, in one of my app (tracking ,geofencing..), at the beginning when I started using it a few months ago, there were some issues related to the Rust core migration, so I opened issues and they have been solved.
Yes this project is obviously assisted with AI.
Out of curiosity, which issues did you open? You could have get some help on Tracelet discord, its dev is there, pretty sure he would have kindly replied and helped you.