diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/vit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/vit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d8dea641c3ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/vit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ pkgs, fetchgit, stdenv, makeWrapper, taskwarrior, ncurses,
+perl, perlPackages }:
+
+let
+  version = "1.2";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "vit-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://git.tasktools.org/scm/ex/vit.git";
+    rev = "7d0042ca30e9d09cfbf9743b3bc72096e4a8fe1e";
+    sha256 = "92cad7169b3870145dff02256e547ae270996a314b841d3daed392ac6722827f";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    substituteInPlace Makefile.in \
+      --replace sudo ""
+    substituteInPlace configure \
+      --replace /usr/bin/perl ${perl}/bin/perl
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/vit --prefix PERL5LIB : $PERL5LIB
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ taskwarrior ncurses perlPackages.Curses perl makeWrapper ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Visual Interactive Taskwarrior";
+    maintainers = with pkgs.lib.maintainers; [ matthiasbeyer ];
+    platforms = pkgs.lib.platforms.linux;
+    license = pkgs.lib.licenses.gpl3;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6a1323ea8d06..4fd3a1b08a75 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3271,6 +3271,8 @@ let
     inherit (gnome3) gexiv2;
   };
 
+  vit = callPackage ../applications/misc/vit { };
+
   vnc2flv = callPackage ../tools/video/vnc2flv {};
 
   vncrec = builderDefsPackage (callPackage ../tools/video/vncrec) {};