diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/icdiff/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/icdiff/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8469a151aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/icdiff/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonApplication }:
+
+buildPythonApplication rec {
+  name = "icdiff-${version}";
+  version = "1.7.3";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jeffkaufman";
+    repo = "icdiff";
+    rev = "release-${version}";
+    sha256 = "1k7dlf2i40flsrvkma1k1vii9hsjwdmwryx65q0n0yj4frv7ky6k";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://www.jefftk.com/icdiff;
+    description = "Side-by-side highlighted command line diffs";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ aneeshusa ];
+    license = licenses.psfl;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index da81848ecc8..6670290338c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10302,6 +10302,8 @@ in modules // {
     };
   };
 
+  icdiff = callPackage ../tools/text/icdiff {};
+
   importlib = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "importlib-1.0.2";