diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/plover/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/plover/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index fc0ff2a6b9f9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/plover/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  config,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  python3Packages,
-  wmctrl,
-  qtbase,
-  mkDerivationWith,
-}:
-
-{
-  dev =
-    with python3Packages;
-    mkDerivationWith buildPythonPackage rec {
-      pname = "plover";
-      version = "4.0.2";
-      format = "setuptools";
-
-      meta = {
-        broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-        description = "OpenSteno Plover stenography software";
-        maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
-          twey
-          kovirobi
-        ];
-        license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
-      };
-
-      src = fetchFromGitHub {
-        owner = "openstenoproject";
-        repo = "plover";
-        tag = "v${version}";
-        sha256 = "sha256-VpQT25bl8yPG4J9IwLkhSkBt31Y8BgPJdwa88WlreA8=";
-      };
-
-      # I'm not sure why we don't find PyQt5 here but there's a similar
-      # sed on many of the platforms Plover builds for
-      postPatch = "sed -i /PyQt5/d setup.cfg";
-
-      nativeCheckInputs = [
-        pytest
-        mock
-      ];
-      propagatedBuildInputs = [
-        babel
-        pyqt5
-        xlib
-        pyserial
-        appdirs
-        wcwidth
-        setuptools
-      ];
-
-      dontWrapQtApps = true;
-
-      preFixup = ''
-        makeWrapperArgs+=("''${qtWrapperArgs[@]}")
-      '';
-    };
-}
-// lib.optionalAttrs config.allowAliases {
-  stable = throw "plover.stable was removed because it used Python 2. Use plover.dev instead."; # added 2022-06-05
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8753ebb0316c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  config,
+  python3Packages,
+  # For aliases
+  plover,
+}:
+python3Packages.toPythonApplication python3Packages.plover
+# Aliases to now-dropped plover.stable and plover.dev
+# Added 2026-04-22
+# TODO(@ShamrockLee): remove after Nixpkgs 25.11 EOL
+// lib.optionalAttrs (config.allowAliases && !(lib.oldestSupportedReleaseIsAtLeast 2605)) {
+  dev =
+    lib.throwIf (lib.oldestSupportedReleaseIsAtLeast 2511) "plover.dev was renamed. Use plover instead."
+      plover; # Added 2026-04-26
+  stable = throw "plover.stable was renamed. Use plover instead."; # Added 2022-06-05; updated 2026-04-26
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover_4/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover_4/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eed2b2361775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover_4/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{ python3Packages }:
+
+python3Packages.toPythonApplication python3Packages.plover_4
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover_5/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover_5/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..20ecfa171780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pl/plover_5/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{ python3Packages }:
+
+python3Packages.toPythonApplication python3Packages.plover_5
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover-stroke/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover-stroke/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a97dfa33f5bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover-stroke/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  python,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  setuptools,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  pytest-qt,
+  pyside6,
+  versionCheckHook,
+  which,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  pname = "plover-stroke";
+  version = "1.1.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "openstenoproject";
+    repo = "plover_stroke";
+    tag = finalAttrs.version;
+    hash = "sha256-A75OMzmEn0VmDAvmQCp6/7uptxzwWJTwsih3kWlYioA=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    pytest-qt
+    pyside6
+  ];
+
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [
+    versionCheckHook
+    which
+  ];
+
+  versionCheckProgramArg = "${placeholder "out"}/${python.sitePackages}";
+
+  preInstallCheck = ''
+    versionCheckProgram="$(which ls)"
+  '';
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "plover_stroke" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Helper class for working with steno strokes";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover_stroke";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus; # https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover_stroke/issues/4
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pandapip1 ];
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover/4.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover/4.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bda985cb0122
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover/4.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  versionCheckHook,
+  appdirs,
+  babel,
+  evdev,
+  mock,
+  pyqt5,
+  pyserial,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  pytest-qt,
+  plover-stroke,
+  rtf-tokenize,
+  setuptools,
+  wcwidth,
+  wheel,
+  xlib,
+  wrapQtAppsHook,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  pname = "plover";
+  version = "4.0.2";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "openstenoproject";
+    repo = "plover";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-VpQT25bl8yPG4J9IwLkhSkBt31Y8BgPJdwa88WlreA8=";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i 's/,<77//g' pyproject.toml # pythonRelaxDepsHook doesn't work for this for some reason
+  '';
+
+  build-system = [
+    babel
+    setuptools
+    pyqt5
+    wheel
+  ];
+  dependencies = [
+    appdirs
+    evdev
+    pyqt5
+    pyserial
+    plover-stroke
+    rtf-tokenize
+    setuptools
+    wcwidth
+    xlib
+  ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    wrapQtAppsHook
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    versionCheckHook
+    pytest-qt
+    mock
+  ];
+
+  # Segfaults?!
+  disabledTestPaths = [ "test/gui_qt/test_dictionaries_widget.py" ];
+
+  preFixup = ''
+    makeWrapperArgs+=("''${qtWrapperArgs[@]}")
+  '';
+
+  dontWrapQtApps = true;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "plover" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "OpenSteno Plover stenography software";
+    homepage = "https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/";
+    mainProgram = "plover";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+      twey
+      kovirobi
+      pandapip1
+      ShamrockLee
+    ];
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+    broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover/5.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover/5.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..45899b201b7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/plover/5.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  buildPackages,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  versionCheckHook,
+  appdirs,
+  babel,
+  evdev,
+  mock,
+  packaging,
+  pkginfo,
+  psutil,
+  pygments,
+  pyserial,
+  pyside6,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  pytest-qt,
+  plover-stroke,
+  readme-renderer,
+  requests-cache,
+  requests-futures,
+  rtf-tokenize,
+  setuptools,
+  wcwidth,
+  wheel,
+  xlib,
+  qtbase,
+  wrapQtAppsHook,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  pname = "plover";
+  version = "5.0.0.dev2";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "openstenoproject";
+    repo = "plover";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-PZwxVrdQPhgbj+YmWZIUETngeJGs6IQty0hY43tLQO0=";
+  };
+
+  # pythonRelaxDeps seemingly doesn't work here
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i 's/,<77//g' pyproject.toml
+    sed -i /PySide6-Essentials/d pyproject.toml
+  '';
+
+  build-system = [
+    babel
+    setuptools
+    pyside6
+    wheel
+
+    # Replacement for missing pyside6-essentials tools,
+    # workaround for https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/277849.
+    # Ideally this would be solved in pyside6 itself but I spent four
+    # hours trying to untangle its build system before giving up. If
+    # anyone wants to spend the time fixing it feel free to request
+    # me (@Pandapip1) as a reviewer.
+    (buildPackages.writeShellScriptBin "pyside6-uic" ''
+      exec ${qtbase}/libexec/uic -g python "$@"
+    '')
+    (buildPackages.writeShellScriptBin "pyside6-rcc" ''
+      exec ${qtbase}/libexec/rcc -g python "$@"
+    '')
+  ];
+  dependencies = [
+    appdirs
+    evdev
+    packaging
+    pkginfo
+    psutil
+    pygments
+    pyserial
+    pyside6
+    plover-stroke
+    qtbase
+    readme-renderer
+    requests-cache
+    requests-futures
+    rtf-tokenize
+    setuptools
+    wcwidth
+    xlib
+  ]
+  ++ readme-renderer.optional-dependencies.md;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    wrapQtAppsHook
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    versionCheckHook
+    pytest-qt
+    mock
+  ];
+
+  # Segfaults?!
+  disabledTestPaths = [ "test/gui_qt/test_dictionaries_widget.py" ];
+
+  preFixup = ''
+    makeWrapperArgs+=("''${qtWrapperArgs[@]}")
+  '';
+
+  dontWrapQtApps = true;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "plover" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "OpenSteno Plover stenography software";
+    homepage = "https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/";
+    mainProgram = "plover";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+      twey
+      kovirobi
+      pandapip1
+      ShamrockLee
+    ];
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+    broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rtf-tokenize/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rtf-tokenize/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f6701180dabc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rtf-tokenize/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  python,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  setuptools,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  versionCheckHook,
+  which,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  pname = "rtf-tokenize";
+  version = "1.0.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "openstenoproject";
+    repo = "rtf_tokenize";
+    tag = finalAttrs.version;
+    hash = "sha256-zwD2sRYTY1Kmm/Ag2hps9VRdUyQoi4zKtDPR+F52t9A=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
+
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [
+    versionCheckHook
+    which
+  ];
+
+  versionCheckProgramArg = "${placeholder "out"}/${python.sitePackages}";
+
+  preInstallCheck = ''
+    versionCheckProgram="$(which ls)"
+  '';
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "rtf_tokenize" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Simple RTF tokenizer package for Python";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/openstenoproject/rtf_tokenize";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus; # https://github.com/openstenoproject/rtf_tokenize/issues/1
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pandapip1 ];
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1a32a61868b8..ef8e6ac79012 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10123,8 +10123,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   plex-mpv-shim = python3Packages.callPackage ../applications/video/plex-mpv-shim { };
 
-  plover = recurseIntoAttrs (libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/plover { });
-
   # perhaps there are better apps for this task? It's how I had configured my previous system.
   # And I don't want to rewrite all rules
   profanity = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/profanity (
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d66783552dc8..debe4b242966 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -12664,6 +12664,24 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   plotpy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/plotpy { };
 
+  # Plover 5 moves from PyQt5 to PySide6,
+  # which is a backward-incompatible change to praphical plugins.
+  # Use Plover 4 for now (2026-04-26),
+  # as the upstream still warns about this in every Plover 5 release,
+  # List of unsupported plugins:
+  # https://github.com/opensteno/plover_plugins_registry/blob/master/unsupported.json
+  plover = plover_4;
+
+  plover-stroke = callPackage ../development/python-modules/plover-stroke { };
+
+  plover_4 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/plover/4.nix {
+    inherit (pkgs.libsForQt5) wrapQtAppsHook;
+  };
+
+  plover_5 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/plover/5.nix {
+    inherit (pkgs.qt6) qtbase wrapQtAppsHook;
+  };
+
   pluggy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pluggy { };
 
   pluginbase = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pluginbase { };
@@ -17157,6 +17175,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   rtb-data = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rtb-data { };
 
+  rtf-tokenize = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rtf-tokenize { };
+
   rtfde = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rtfde { };
 
   rtfunicode = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rtfunicode { };