diff --git a/pkgs/applications/search/doodle/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/search/doodle/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a6b3ac7ccfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/search/doodle/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, libextractor, gettext }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "doodle-0.7.0";
+
+  buildInputs = [ libextractor gettext ];
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://grothoff.org/christian/doodle/download/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0ayx5q7chzll9sv3miq35xl36r629cvgdzphf379kxzlzhjldy3j";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://grothoff.org/christian/doodle/;
+    description = "Tool to quickly index and search documents on a computer";
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [viric];
+    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d34bb6da7e2..ae51f037879 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6798,6 +6798,8 @@ let
     inherit (xlibs) libX11;
   };
 
+  doodle = callPackage ../applications/search/doodle { };
+
   dunst = callPackage ../applications/misc/dunst { };
 
   dvb_apps  = callPackage ../applications/video/dvb-apps { };