diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/toxic/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/toxic/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a87bcc651d6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/toxic/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, autoconf, libtool, automake, libsodium, ncurses
+, tox_core, pkgconfig }:
+
+let
+  version = "75d356e52a";
+  date = "20131011";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "toxic-${date}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/Tox/toxic/tarball/${version}";
+    name = "${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "14wyvms8l07sl88g8y6g2jv95sq7cnhbaqf4n32xxilch8rymq47";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    autoreconf -i
+  '';
+
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lsodium";
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-libtoxcore-headers=${tox_core}/include"
+    "--with-libtoxcore-libs=${tox_core}/lib" 
+    "--with-libsodium-headers=${tox_core}/include"
+    "--with-libsodium-libs=${tox_core}/lib" 
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ autoconf libtool automake tox_core libsodium ncurses pkgconfig ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Reference CLI for Tox";
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ viric ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b24a4b2dc891..b80e83b1dc17 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8719,6 +8719,8 @@ let
 
   tox_core = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/toxcore { };
 
+  toxic = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/toxic { };
+
   transmission = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/transmission { };
   transmission_gtk = transmission.override { enableGTK3 = true; };