diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/taskwarrior/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/taskwarrior/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..52b721622e4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/taskwarrior/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "task-warrior-1.9.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.taskwarrior.org/download/task-1.9.4.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0jnk30k1b2j3nx39il70jmj6p49wxp6cl4awd8hw71gqkcf6480h";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Command-line todo list manager";
+    homepage = http://taskwarrior.org/;
+    license = "MIT";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 44d44f080e06..9d2c693e163d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7422,6 +7422,8 @@ let
     withKde = getConfig [ "taskJuggler" "kde" ] false;
   };
 
+  taskwarrior = callPackage ../applications/misc/taskwarrior { };
+
   tesseract = callPackage ../applications/graphics/tesseract { };
 
   thinkingRock = callPackage ../applications/misc/thinking-rock { };