diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/jackline/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/jackline/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b6ac19fdc37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/jackline/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocamlPackages}:
+
+assert stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast ocamlPackages.ocaml.version "4.02.2";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "2016-10-30";
+  name = "jackline-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "hannesm";
+    repo   = "jackline";
+    rev    = "8d829b03f2cdad6b13260ad293aeaa44075bd894";
+    sha256 = "1xsngldyracfb15jxa9h5qnpaywv6bn8gkg0hzccycjz1nfskl17";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with ocamlPackages; [
+                  ocaml ocamlbuild findlib topkg ppx_sexp_conv
+                  erm_xmpp_0_3 tls nocrypto x509 ocaml_lwt otr astring
+                  ptime notty sexplib_p4 hex uutf opam
+                ];
+
+  buildPhase = with ocamlPackages; ''
+    ocaml -I ${findlib}/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib pkg/pkg.ml build \
+      --pinned true
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    opam-installer --prefix=$out --script | sh
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/hannesm/jackline;
+    description = "Terminal-based XMPP client in pure OCaml.";
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sternenseemann ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 44e788af7c4..e6ed34d0f8e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13251,6 +13251,10 @@ in
   hyper = callPackage ../applications/misc/hyper { inherit (gnome2) GConf; };
   hyperterm = self.hyper;
 
+  jackline = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/jackline {
+    ocamlPackages = ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_4_02;
+  };
+
   slack = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/slack { };
 
   spectrwm = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/spectrwm { };