diff --git a/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c254c9a593
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ lib, python3Packages, slurp }:
+
+python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+  pname = "swaytools";
+  version = "0.1.0";
+
+  src = python3Packages.fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1eb89259cbe027a0fa6bfc06ecf94e89b15e6f7b4965104e5b661c916ce7408c";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ slurp ];
+
+  passthru.updateScript = ./update.py;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tmccombs/swaytools";
+    description = "Collection of simple tools for sway (and i3)";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ atila ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/update.py b/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/update.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..141566848e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/update.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i python -p python39Packages.requests python39Packages.pip python39Packages.packaging
+
+import requests
+import json
+import subprocess
+try:
+    from packaging.version import parse
+except ImportError:
+    from pip._vendor.packaging.version import parse
+
+
+URL_PATTERN = 'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{package}/json'
+
+def findLine(key,derivation):
+    count = 0
+    lines = []
+    for line in derivation:
+        if key in line:
+            lines.append(count)
+        count += 1
+    return lines
+
+def get_version(package, url_pattern=URL_PATTERN):
+    """Return version of package on pypi.python.org using json."""
+    req = requests.get(url_pattern.format(package=package))
+    version = parse('0')
+    if req.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
+        j = json.loads(req.text.encode(req.encoding))
+        releases = j.get('releases', [])
+        for release in releases:
+            ver = parse(release)
+            if not ver.is_prerelease:
+                if ver > version:
+                    version = ver
+                    sha256  = j["releases"][release][-1]["digests"]["sha256"]
+    return version, sha256
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    nixpkgs         = subprocess.check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "--show-toplevel"]).decode("utf-8").strip('\n')
+    swaytoolsFolder = "/pkgs/tools/wayland/swaytools/"
+    with open(nixpkgs + swaytoolsFolder + "default.nix", 'r') as arq:
+        derivation = arq.readlines()
+
+    version, sha256 = get_version('swaytools')
+
+    key = "version = "
+    line = findLine(key,derivation)[0]
+    derivation[line] = f'  version = "{version}";\n'
+
+    key = "sha256 = "
+    line = findLine(key,derivation)[0]
+    derivation[line] = f'    sha256 = "{sha256}";\n'
+
+    with open(nixpkgs + swaytoolsFolder + "default.nix", 'w') as arq:
+        arq.writelines(derivation)
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d37a6e8efb0..60a99965702 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2642,6 +2642,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   swayr = callPackage ../tools/wayland/swayr { };
 
+  swaytools = callPackage ../tools/wayland/swaytools { };
+
   wayland-utils = callPackage ../tools/wayland/wayland-utils { };
 
   wayland-proxy-virtwl = callPackage ../tools/wayland/wayland-proxy-virtwl { };