diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1bc97c6..dd58803 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ requests>=0.10
 pycryptodome>=3.9.6,<4.0.0
 pathlib==1.0.1
 tenacity>=5.1.5,<6.0.0
+tqdm
diff --git a/src/mega/mega.py b/src/mega/mega.py
index 906b0db..f8c4b2d 100644
--- a/src/mega/mega.py
+++ b/src/mega/mega.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import binascii
 import tempfile
 import shutil
+from tqdm import *
 
 import requests
 from tenacity import retry, wait_exponential, retry_if_exception_type
@@ -694,6 +695,9 @@ def _download_file(self,
 
         input_file = requests.get(file_url, stream=True).raw
 
+        total_size_in_bytes= int(input_file.headers.get('content-length', 0))
+        progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit='iB', unit_scale=True)
+
         if dest_path is None:
             dest_path = ''
         else:
@@ -715,6 +719,7 @@ def _download_file(self,
             for chunk_start, chunk_size in get_chunks(file_size):
                 chunk = input_file.read(chunk_size)
                 chunk = aes.decrypt(chunk)
+                progress_bar.update(chunk_size)
                 temp_output_file.write(chunk)
 
                 encryptor = AES.new(k_str, AES.MODE_CBC, iv_str)
@@ -736,6 +741,7 @@ def _download_file(self,
                 file_info = os.stat(temp_output_file.name)
                 logger.info('%s of %s downloaded', file_info.st_size,
                             file_size)
+            progress_bar.close()
             file_mac = str_to_a32(mac_str)
             # check mac integrity
             if (file_mac[0] ^ file_mac[1],