diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/leafpad/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/leafpad/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0e2e902bbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/leafpad/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, intltool, pkgconfig, gtk }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "0.8.18.1";
+  name = "leafpad-${version}";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/leafpad/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0b0az2wvqgvam7w0ns1j8xp2llslm1rx6h7zcsy06a7j0yp257cm";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ intltool pkgconfig gtk ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-chooser"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A notepad clone for GTK+ 2.0";
+    homepage = http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.flosse ];
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3c644dbd72b..7793ae9389d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1545,6 +1545,8 @@ let
 
   ldns = callPackage ../development/libraries/ldns { };
 
+  leafpad = callPackage ../applications/editors/leafpad { };
+
   lftp = callPackage ../tools/networking/lftp { };
 
   libconfig = callPackage ../development/libraries/libconfig { };