diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-template/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-template/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0ef3602c597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-template/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ lib, rustPlatform, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
+  pname = "nix-template";
+  version = "0.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jonringer";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1h6xdvhzg7nb0s82b3r5bsh8bfdb1l5sm7fa24lfwd396xp9yyig";
+  };
+
+  cargoSha256 = "13y3b60xnry71999kygvkr29gkyjss3ga3rzb43ajah4qp90rsqs";
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Make creating nix expressions easy";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jonringer/nix-template/";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/jonringer/nix-template/releases/tag/v${version}";
+    license = licenses.cc0;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jonringer ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d73a5c31313..44e294af2f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2241,6 +2241,8 @@ in
 
   nix-direnv = callPackage ../tools/misc/nix-direnv { };
 
+  nix-template = callPackage ../tools/package-management/nix-template { };
+
   nixpkgs-pytools = with python3.pkgs; toPythonApplication nixpkgs-pytools;
 
   noteshrink = callPackage ../tools/misc/noteshrink { };