diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/papis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/papis/default.nix
similarity index 68%
rename from pkgs/tools/misc/papis/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/papis/default.nix
index f1589fc8c3b..d9be946900c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/papis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/papis/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch
-, python3, xdg_utils
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, xdg_utils
+, requests, filetype, pyparsing, configparser, arxiv2bib
+, pyyaml, chardet, beautifulsoup4, colorama, bibtexparser
+, pylibgen, click, python-slugify, habanero, isbnlib
+, prompt_toolkit, pygments
+#, optional, dependencies
+, jinja2, whoosh, pytest
 }:
 
-python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
+buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "papis";
   version = "0.8.2";
 
@@ -14,7 +19,7 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     sha256 = "0sa4hpgjvqkjcmp9bjr27b5m5jg4pfspdc8nf1ny80sr0kzn72hb";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
     requests filetype pyparsing configparser arxiv2bib
     pyyaml chardet beautifulsoup4 colorama bibtexparser
     pylibgen click python-slugify habanero isbnlib
@@ -23,7 +28,7 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     jinja2 whoosh
   ];
 
-  checkInputs = (with python3.pkgs; [
+  checkInputs = ([
     pytest
   ]) ++ [
     xdg_utils
@@ -39,6 +44,6 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     description = "Powerful command-line document and bibliography manager";
     homepage = http://papis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/;
     license = lib.licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.nico202 ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ nico202 teto ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f892404b030..61cd74b5271 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16070,7 +16070,7 @@ in
 
   papirus-icon-theme = callPackage ../data/icons/papirus-icon-theme { };
 
-  papis = callPackage ../tools/misc/papis { };
+  papis = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication papis;
 
   paps = callPackage ../tools/misc/paps { };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 26205eaec42..41eb849fd70 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2124,6 +2124,8 @@ in {
 
   paperwork-backend = callPackage ../applications/office/paperwork/backend.nix { };
 
+  papis = callPackage ../development/python-modules/papis { };
+
   papis-python-rofi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/papis-python-rofi { };
 
   pathspec = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pathspec { };