diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 738dabc6..581cc634 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # unreleased
 
 ## Features
+* Add a `zbat` wrapper script to automatically decompress files before display, see PR #3177 (@anarcat)
 
 - Add paging to `--list-themes`, see PR #3239 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
 
diff --git a/bin/zbat b/bin/zbat
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..977c4a05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/zbat
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+set -u
+# shellcheck disable=SC3040
+(set -o pipefail 2> /dev/null) && set -o pipefail
+
+cpath="$1"
+# cpath without suffix
+path="$(echo $cpath | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')"
+
+( bsdcat "$path" || gunzip -c "$path" ) | batcat --file-name "$path"