diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libheif/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libheif/default.nix
index fd527eb415b..4a5f6ab3bd8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libheif/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libheif/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, libde265, x265, libpng, libjpeg }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, libde265, x265, libpng,
+  libjpeg, libaom }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libheif";
-  version = "1.8.0";
+  version = "1.9.1";
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" "man" ];
 
@@ -10,11 +11,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     owner = "strukturag";
     repo = "libheif";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "15az44qdqp2vncdfv1bzdl30977kvqxcb2bhx4x3q6vcxnm1xfgg";
+    sha256 = "0hjs1i076jmy4ryj8y2zs293wx53kzg38y8i42cbcsqydvsdp6hz";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ libde265 x265 libpng libjpeg ];
+  buildInputs = [ libde265 x265 libpng libjpeg libaom ];
+  # TODO: enable dav1d and rav1e codecs when libheif can find them via pkg-config
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;