diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 941e4e3c..b704eec2 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)
 
 ## Bugfixes
 * Fix `BAT_THEME_DARK` and `BAT_THEME_LIGHT` being ignored, see issue #3171 and PR #3168 (@bash)
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"