diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/anime-downloader/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/anime-downloader/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cf8edb33dd87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/anime-downloader/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ lib, python3, aria2, mpv, nodejs, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
+  pname = "anime-downloader";
+  version = "5.0.14";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "anime-dl";
+    repo = "anime-downloader";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "sha256-Uk2mtsSrb8fCD9JCFzvLBzMEB7ViVDrKPSOKy9ALJ6o=";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    jsbeautifier
+    pycryptodome
+    requests
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    aria2
+    mpv
+    nodejs
+  ] ++ (with python3.pkgs; [
+    beautifulsoup4
+    cfscrape
+    click
+    coloredlogs
+    fuzzywuzzy
+    pySmartDL
+    pyqt5
+    requests-cache
+    selenium
+    tabulate
+  ]);
+
+  doCheck = false;
+  # FIXME: checks must be disabled because they are lacking the qt env.
+  #        They fail like this, even if built and wrapped with all Qt and runtime dependencies.
+  #        Ref.: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/634141959076a8ab69ca2cca0f266852256d79ee/pkgs/applications/misc/openlp/lib.nix#L20-L23
+
+  passthru.updateScript = ./update.sh;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/anime-dl/anime-downloader";
+    description = "A simple but powerful anime downloader and streamer";
+    license = licenses.unlicense;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ WeebSorceress ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/anime-downloader/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/video/anime-downloader/update.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..292299298ad9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/anime-downloader/update.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq common-updater-scripts
+
+set -eu -o pipefail
+
+version="$(curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/anime-dl/anime-downloader/releases" | jq '.[0].tag_name' --raw-output)"
+
+update-source-version anime-downloader "$version"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 66c78c6783d2..b16a12dd7beb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ani-cli = callPackage ../applications/video/ani-cli { };
 
+  anime-downloader = callPackage ../applications/video/anime-downloader { };
+
   aocd = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication aocd;
 
   aesfix = callPackage ../tools/security/aesfix { };