diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dd95b231bd13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ buildPythonApplication, lib, fetchFromGitHub
+, dateutil, pyyaml, openpyxl, xlrd, h5py, fonttools, lxml, pandas, pyshp
+}:
+buildPythonApplication rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "visidata";
+  version = "1.3.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "saulpw";
+    repo = "visidata";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1d5sx1kfil1vjkynaac5sjsnn9azxxw834gwbh9plzd5fwxg4dz2";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [dateutil pyyaml openpyxl xlrd h5py fonttools
+    lxml pandas pyshp ];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    inherit version;
+    description = "Interactive terminal multitool for tabular data";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3 ;
+    maintainers = [lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+    homepage = "http://visidata.org/";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3d227e32c3ee..9e404360eaec 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5864,6 +5864,9 @@ with pkgs;
 
   vimer = callPackage ../tools/misc/vimer { };
 
+  visidata = (newScope python3Packages) ../applications/misc/visidata {
+  };
+
   vit = callPackage ../applications/misc/vit { };
 
   vnc2flv = callPackage ../tools/video/vnc2flv {};