diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/notepadqq/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/notepadqq/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0de33d6d1949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/notepadqq/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, pkgconfig, which, qtbase }:
+
+let
+  version = "0.53.0";
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "notepadqq-${version}";
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq.git";
+    rev = "3b0751277fb268ec72b466b37d0f0977c536bc1b";
+    sha256 = "0hw94mn2xg2r58afvz1xg990jinv9aa33942zgwq54qwj61r93hi";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkgconfig which
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    qtbase.qtsvg qtbase.qtwebkit qtbase.qttools
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export LRELEASE="lrelease"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://notepadqq.altervista.org/";
+    description = "Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ rszibele ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ea2feb5e2362..1513a4b4fcbf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13754,6 +13754,10 @@ in
 
   nedit = callPackage ../applications/editors/nedit { };
 
+  notepadqq = callPackage ../applications/editors/notepadqq {
+    qtbase = qt55;
+  };
+
   notmuch = callPackage ../applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch {
     # No need to build Emacs - notmuch.el works just fine without
     # byte-compilation. Use emacsPackages.notmuch if you want to