diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index a6998a8b..d5d3e1ef 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -523,6 +523,18 @@ brotli = ["brotlipy (>=0.6.0)"]
 secure = ["pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "certifi", "ipaddress"]
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "verlat"
+version = "0.1.0.post1"
+description = "Get info about the latest release of a package on PyPI."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8,<4.0"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pydantic = ">=1.8.2,<2.0.0"
+requests = ">=2.25.1,<3.0.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "virtualenv"
 version = "20.4.7"
@@ -576,7 +588,7 @@ testing = ["pytest (>=4.6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=1.2.3)", "pytest-flake8", "pyt
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "61c92604764d36e7affa72dfd4338a8567245288ff1ef0b77459eec4eed51038"
+content-hash = "baa9414957d9423a3b8c7fb1c27f8de153c0963ee393cc99b63f8bdc897e43e3"
 
 [metadata.files]
 aiohttp = [
@@ -1079,6 +1091,10 @@ urllib3 = [
     {file = "urllib3-1.26.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:753a0374df26658f99d826cfe40394a686d05985786d946fbe4165b5148f5a7c"},
     {file = "urllib3-1.26.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:a7acd0977125325f516bda9735fa7142b909a8d01e8b2e4c8108d0984e6e0098"},
 ]
+verlat = [
+    {file = "verlat-0.1.0.post1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:62835f120e88f8f3cb2879d7394f971a588aad3cd0cc5d08e7d3bc9b29697555"},
+    {file = "verlat-0.1.0.post1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:10a03e3aa87e5ffa0fdc55819931b5738752651387cd65517311088506951938"},
+]
 virtualenv = [
     {file = "virtualenv-20.4.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2b0126166ea7c9c3661f5b8e06773d28f83322de7a3ff7d06f0aed18c9de6a76"},
     {file = "virtualenv-20.4.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:14fdf849f80dbb29a4eb6caa9875d476ee2a5cf76a5f5415fa2f1606010ab467"},
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0b432c05..5e5b23e4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ tg-login = "^0.0.2"
 pytesseract = "^0.3.7"
 rich = "^10.3.0"
 pyfiglet = "^0.8.post1"
+verlat = "^0.1.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 typer-cli = "^0.0.11"
diff --git a/tgcf/cli.py b/tgcf/cli.py
index e6af8fc9..8e4ed08d 100644
--- a/tgcf/cli.py
+++ b/tgcf/cli.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
 import typer
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from pyfiglet import Figlet
-from rich import traceback
+from rich import print, traceback
 from rich.logging import RichHandler
+from verlat import latest_release
 
 from tgcf import __version__
 
@@ -22,6 +23,13 @@
 app = typer.Typer(add_completion=False)
 
 
+def topper():
+    fig = Figlet(font="speed")
+    print(fig.renderText("tgcf"))
+    version_check()
+    print("\n\n")
+
+
 class Mode(str, Enum):
     """tgcf works in two modes."""
 
@@ -29,13 +37,6 @@ class Mode(str, Enum):
     LIVE = "live"
 
 
-def version_callback(value: bool):
-    """Show current version and exit."""
-    if value:
-        print(__version__)
-        raise typer.Exit()
-
-
 def verbosity_callback(value: bool):
     """Set logging level."""
     traceback.install()
@@ -53,9 +54,7 @@ def verbosity_callback(value: bool):
             )
         ],
     )
-    fig = Figlet(font="speed")
-    print(fig.renderText("tgcf"))
-
+    topper()
     logging.info("Verbosity turned on! This is suitable for debugging")
     nl = "\n"
     logging.info(
@@ -67,6 +66,23 @@ def verbosity_callback(value: bool):
     )
 
 
+def version_callback(value: bool):
+    """Show current version and exit."""
+
+    if value:
+        print(__version__)
+        raise typer.Exit()
+
+
+def version_check():
+    latver = latest_release("tgcf").version
+    if __version__ != latver:
+        print(
+            f"tgcf has a newer release {latver} availaible!\
+            \nVisit http://bit.ly/update-tgcf"
+        )
+
+
 @app.command()
 def main(
     mode: Mode = typer.Argument(