diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/scite/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/scite/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c230a2984eb..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/scite/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, pkg-config, gtk2 }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "scite";
-  version = "5.2.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.scintilla.org/scite522.tgz";
-    sha256 = "1q46clclx8r0b8zbq2zi89sygszgqf9ra5l83r2fs0ghvjgh2cxd";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ gtk2 ];
-  sourceRoot = "scintilla/gtk";
-
-  CXXFLAGS = [
-    # GCC 13: error: 'intptr_t' does not name a type
-    "-include cstdint"
-    "-include system_error"
-  ];
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    make
-    cd ../../lexilla/src
-    make
-    cd ../../scite/gtk
-    make prefix=$out/
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    make install prefix=$out/
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html";
-    description = "SCIntilla based Text Editor";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.rszibele ];
-    mainProgram = "SciTE";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sc/scite/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sc/scite/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e8b2c0ba9b50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sc/scite/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchurl,
+  pkg-config,
+  wrapGAppsHook3,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "scite";
+  version = "5.5.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.scintilla.org/scite${lib.replaceStrings [ "." ] [ "" ] finalAttrs.version}.tgz";
+    hash = "sha256-MtXy8a4MzdJP8Rf6otc+Zu+KfYSJnmmXfBS8RVBBbOY=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+    wrapGAppsHook3
+  ];
+
+  sourceRoot = "scite/gtk";
+
+  makeFlags = [
+    "GTK3=1"
+    "prefix=${placeholder "out"}"
+  ];
+
+  CXXFLAGS = [
+    # GCC 13: error: 'intptr_t' does not name a type
+    "-include cstdint"
+    "-include system_error"
+  ];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    pushd ../../scintilla/gtk
+    make ''${makeFlags[@]}
+    popd
+
+    pushd ../../lexilla/src
+    make ''${makeFlags[@]}
+    popd
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html";
+    description = "SCIntilla based Text Editor";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+      rszibele
+      aleksana
+    ];
+    mainProgram = "SciTE";
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e3e79e9f6989..008208e729f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -32242,8 +32242,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   sc-im = callPackage ../applications/misc/sc-im { };
 
-  scite = callPackage ../applications/editors/scite { };
-
   scli = callPackage ../applications/misc/scli { };
 
   scribus_1_5 = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/office/scribus/default.nix { };