diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/en/ente-desktop/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/en/ente-desktop/package.nix
index b1c4c9af23e9..ad7939921bd1 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/en/ente-desktop/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/en/ente-desktop/package.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
   autoPatchelfHook,
   makeDesktopItem,
   imagemagick,
+  wasm-pack,
+  rustPlatform,
+  cargo,
+  rustc,
+  wasm-bindgen-cli_0_2_108,
+  binaryen,
 }:
 let
   electron = electron_38;
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "ente-desktop";
-  version = "1.7.15";
+  version = "1.7.21";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "ente-io";
@@ -29,13 +35,25 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     sparseCheckout = [
       "desktop"
       "web"
+      "rust"
     ];
     tag = "photosd-v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-QnJp+oHkRsb/uMobA33Hgo2VOzfDFDtJ6vchCAzyb+c=";
+    hash = "sha256-nkI2wfjpQPWPmu+IKbNMQuqby2odRG3Dbyzd7cSxmYY=";
   };
 
   sourceRoot = "${finalAttrs.src.name}/desktop";
+  cargoRoot = "../web/packages/wasm";
 
+  cargoDeps = rustPlatform.fetchCargoVendor {
+    inherit (finalAttrs)
+      pname
+      version
+      src
+      sourceRoot
+      cargoRoot
+      ;
+    hash = "sha256-ftb0h5MOHyQ2iec6iE7/WdHXgrviLCy8oIqFXv5OTq8=";
+  };
   offlineCache = fetchYarnDeps {
     name = "ente-desktop-${finalAttrs.version}-offline-cache";
     inherit (finalAttrs) src sourceRoot;
@@ -45,7 +63,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     name = "ente-desktop-${finalAttrs.version}-web-offline-cache";
     inherit (finalAttrs) src;
     sourceRoot = "${finalAttrs.src.name}/web";
-    hash = "sha256-m+7woB5XnOPDMLpoIBui1GxeW1BOms18SKJ8vaJcv68=";
+    hash = "sha256-NhpSwesQ9B5gEeBQVjEEAKO4A68wfmBoQ3ga/baieNE=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -55,6 +73,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     autoPatchelfHook # for onnxruntime
     copyDesktopItems
     imagemagick
+
+    wasm-pack
+    rustPlatform.cargoSetupHook
+    cargo
+    rustc
+    rustc.llvmPackages.lld
+    wasm-bindgen-cli_0_2_108
+    binaryen
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [
@@ -72,6 +98,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
     pushd ../web
     offlineCache=$webOfflineCache yarnConfigHook
+    rm -rf node_modules/wasm-pack node_modules/.bin/wasm-pack
     popd
 
     cp -r ${electron.dist} ./electron_dist