diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/termpdf.py/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/termpdf.py/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..83eef6f24e43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/termpdf.py/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonApplication
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchPypi
+, bibtool
+, pybtex
+, pymupdf
+, pynvim
+, pyperclip
+, roman
+, pdfrw
+, pagelabels
+, setuptools
+}:
+
+buildPythonApplication {
+  pname = "termpdf.py";
+  version = "2019-10-03";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "dsanson";
+    repo = "termpdf.py";
+    rev = "4f3bdf4b5a00801631f2498f2c38c81e0a588ae2";
+    sha256 = "05gbj2fqzqndq1mx6g9asa7i6z8a9jdjrvilfwx8lg23cs356m6m";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    bibtool
+    pybtex
+    pymupdf
+    pyperclip
+    roman
+    pagelabels
+    pdfrw
+    pynvim
+    setuptools
+  ];
+
+  # upstream doesn't contain tests
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = ''
+      A graphical pdf (and epub, cbz, ...) reader that works
+      inside the kitty terminal.
+    '';
+    homepage = https://github.com/dsanson/termpdf.py;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ teto ];
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6907e5fb7d3c..0fd80170bbe7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -25873,6 +25873,8 @@ in
 
   prow = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/prow { };
 
+  termpdfpy = python3Packages.callPackage ../applications/misc/termpdf.py {};
+
   inherit (callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/terraform {
     # terraform 0.12 crashes with go1.14 on darwin https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/24287
     buildGoPackage = if stdenv.isDarwin then buildGo113Package else buildGoPackage;