diff --git a/lib/widgets/inset_shadow.dart b/lib/widgets/inset_shadow.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4133ac7de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/widgets/inset_shadow.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
+
+/// A widget that overlays rectangular inset shadows on a child.
+///
+/// The use case of this is casting shadows on scrollable UI elements.
+/// For example, when there is a list of items, the shadows could be
+/// visual indicators for over scrolled areas.
+///
+/// Note that this is a bit different from the CSS `box-shadow: inset`,
+/// because it only supports rectangular shadows.
+///
+/// See also:
+///  * https://www.figma.com/design/1JTNtYo9memgW7vV6d0ygq/Zulip-Mobile?node-id=3860-11890&node-type=frame&t=oOVTdwGZgtvKv9i8-0
+///  * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-shadow#inset
+class InsetShadowBox extends StatelessWidget {
+  const InsetShadowBox({
+    super.key,
+    this.top = 0,
+    this.bottom = 0,
+    required this.color,
+    required this.child,
+  });
+
+  /// The distance that the shadow from the child's top edge grows downwards.
+  ///
+  /// This does not pad the child widget.
+  final double top;
+
+  /// The distance that the shadow from the child's bottom edge grows upwards.
+  ///
+  /// This does not pad the child widget.
+  final double bottom;
+
+  /// The shadow color to fade into transparency from the top and bottom borders.
+  final Color color;
+
+  final Widget child;
+
+  BoxDecoration _shadowFrom(AlignmentGeometry begin) {
+    return BoxDecoration(gradient: LinearGradient(
+      begin: begin, end: -begin,
+      colors: [color, color.withValues(alpha: 0)]));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    return Stack(
+      // This is necessary to pass the constraints as-is,
+      // so that the [Stack] is transparent during layout.
+      fit: StackFit.passthrough,
+      children: [
+        child,
+        Positioned(top: 0, height: top, left: 0, right: 0,
+          child: DecoratedBox(decoration: _shadowFrom(Alignment.topCenter))),
+        Positioned(bottom: 0, height: bottom, left: 0, right: 0,
+          child: DecoratedBox(decoration: _shadowFrom(Alignment.bottomCenter))),
+      ]);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/flutter_checks.dart b/test/flutter_checks.dart
index 3a2b2f2239..a7c9f1c185 100644
--- a/test/flutter_checks.dart
+++ b/test/flutter_checks.dart
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
 
+extension PaintChecks on Subject<Paint> {
+  Subject<Shader?> get shader => has((x) => x.shader, 'shader');
+}
+
 extension RectChecks on Subject<Rect> {
   Subject<double> get top => has((d) => d.top, 'top');
   Subject<double> get bottom => has((d) => d.bottom, 'bottom');
diff --git a/test/widgets/inset_shadow_test.dart b/test/widgets/inset_shadow_test.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8e3d5f498
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/widgets/inset_shadow_test.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import 'dart:ui' as ui;
+import 'package:checks/checks.dart';
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
+import 'package:legacy_checks/legacy_checks.dart';
+import 'package:zulip/widgets/inset_shadow.dart';
+
+import '../flutter_checks.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  testWidgets('constraints from the parent are not modified', (tester) async {
+    await tester.pumpWidget(const Directionality(
+      textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+      child: Align(
+        // Position child at the top-left corner of the box at (0, 0)
+        // to ease the check on [Rect] later.
+        alignment: Alignment.topLeft,
+        child: SizedBox(width: 20, height: 20,
+          child: InsetShadowBox(top: 7, bottom: 3,
+            color: Colors.red,
+            child: SizedBox.shrink())))));
+
+    // We expect that the child of [InsetShadowBox] gets the constraints
+    // from [InsetShadowBox]'s parent unmodified, so that the only effect of
+    // the widget is adding shadows.
+    final parentRect = tester.getRect(find.byType(SizedBox).at(0));
+    final childRect = tester.getRect(find.byType(SizedBox).at(1));
+    check(parentRect).equals(const Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, 20, 20));
+    check(childRect).equals(parentRect);
+  });
+
+  testWidgets('render shadow correctly', (tester) async {
+    PaintPatternPredicate paintGradient({required Rect rect}) {
+      // This is inspired by
+      //   https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/7b5462cc34af903e2f2de4be7540ff858685cdfc/packages/flutter/test/cupertino/route_test.dart#L1449-L1475
+      return (Symbol methodName, List<dynamic> arguments) {
+        check(methodName).equals(#drawRect);
+        check(arguments[0]).isA<Rect>().equals(rect);
+        // We can't further check [ui.Gradient] because it is opaque:
+        //   https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/07d01ad1199522fa5889a10c1688c4e1812b6625/lib/ui/painting.dart#L4487
+        check(arguments[1]).isA<Paint>().shader.isA<ui.Gradient>();
+        return true;
+      };
+    }
+
+    await tester.pumpWidget(const Directionality(
+      textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+      child: Center(
+        // This would be forced to fill up the screen
+        // if not wrapped in a widget like [Center].
+        child: SizedBox(width: 100, height: 100,
+          child: InsetShadowBox(top: 3, bottom: 7,
+            color: Colors.red,
+            child: SizedBox(width: 30, height: 30))))));
+
+    final box = tester.renderObject(find.byType(InsetShadowBox));
+    check(box).legacyMatcher((paints
+      // The coordinate system of these [Rect]'s is relative to the parent
+      // of the [Gradient] from [InsetShadowBox], not the entire [FlutterView].
+      ..something(paintGradient(rect: const Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, 100, 0+3)))
+      ..something(paintGradient(rect: const Rect.fromLTRB(0, 100-7, 100, 100)))
+    ) as Matcher);
+  });
+}