diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sp/spectrwm/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sp/spectrwm/package.nix
index 88129f8bb349..51ee4a77e043 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/sp/spectrwm/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sp/spectrwm/package.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
   xcbutil,
   xcbutilkeysyms,
   xcbutilwm,
+  writeShellScript,
+  curl,
+  jq,
+  nix-update,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
@@ -40,6 +44,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   makeFlags = [ "PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}" ];
 
+  passthru.updateScript = writeShellScript "update-spectrwm" ''
+    latestVersion=$(${lib.getExe curl} ''${GITHUB_TOKEN:+-u ":$GITHUB_TOKEN"} --silent --fail --location https://api.github.com/repos/conformal/spectrwm/releases/latest | ${lib.getExe jq} --raw-output .tag_name | grep -oP '\d+' | paste -sd.)
+    ${lib.getExe nix-update} spectrwm --version=$latestVersion
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     description = "Tiling window manager";
     homepage = "https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm";