diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iotop-c/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iotop-c/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0d03f2024b4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iotop-c/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, lib, ncurses, pkg-config }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "iotop-c";
+  version = "1.17";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "Tomas-M";
+    repo = "iotop";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0hjy30155c3nijx3jgyn5kpj293632p0j6f3lf5acdfax1ynav86";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
+  makeFlags = [ "DESTDIR=$(out)" "TARGET=iotop-c" ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    mv $out/usr/share/man/man8/{iotop,iotop-c}.8
+    ln -s $out/usr/sbin $out/bin
+    ln -s $out/usr/share $out/share
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "iotop identifies processes that use high amount of input/output requests on your machine";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8c77f263654a..cbc0becf8eaa 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -20390,6 +20390,7 @@ in
   iomelt = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/iomelt { };
 
   iotop = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/iotop { };
+  iotop-c = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/iotop-c { };
 
   iproute2 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/iproute { };