diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix
index 969f0297cb24..2c2e9c3129a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
   lib,
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  nix-update-script,
+  testers,
   nodejs,
   node-gyp,
   inter,
@@ -124,6 +126,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     find $out -type l ! -exec test -e {} \; -delete
   '';
 
+  passthru = {
+    tests = {
+      version = testers.testVersion {
+        package = finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+        # remove hardcoded version if upstream syncs general version with cli
+        # version
+        version = "0.23.0";
+      };
+    };
+    updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+  };
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://karakeep.app/";
     description = "Self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search";