diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/simplejson/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/simplejson/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e9293d6258df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/simplejson/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib, buildKodiAddon, fetchzip, addonUpdateScript }:
+
+buildKodiAddon rec {
+  pname = "simplejson";
+  namespace = "script.module.simplejson";
+  version = "3.17.0+matrix.2";
+
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "https://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/matrix/${namespace}/${namespace}-${version}.zip";
+    sha256 = "sha256-XLE4x0qr3CFwWqh1BfSg9q+w6pWgFBXG7TyVJWeGQIs=";
+  };
+
+  passthru = {
+    pythonPath = "lib";
+    updateScript = addonUpdateScript {
+      attrPath = "kodi.packages.simplejson";
+    };
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson";
+    description = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = teams.kodi.members;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/kodi-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/kodi-packages.nix
index 4e8929e2b1a5..79ca22007ddf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/kodi-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/kodi-packages.nix
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ let self = rec {
 
   signals = callPackage ../applications/video/kodi/addons/signals { };
 
+  simplejson = callPackage ../applications/video/kodi/addons/simplejson { };
+
   six = callPackage ../applications/video/kodi/addons/six { };
 
   urllib3 = callPackage ../applications/video/kodi/addons/urllib3 { };