diff --git a/bin/nodemon.js b/bin/nodemon.js
index 4676707f..31aff345 100755
--- a/bin/nodemon.js
+++ b/bin/nodemon.js
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
-'use strict';
-var cli = require('../lib/cli');
-var nodemon = require('../lib/');
-var options = cli.parse(process.argv);
+
+const cli = require('../lib/cli');
+const nodemon = require('../lib/');
+const options = cli.parse(process.argv);
 
 nodemon(options);
 
-var fs = require('fs');
+const fs = require('fs');
 
 // checks for available update and returns an instance
-var pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/../package.json'));
+const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/../package.json'));
 
-if (pkg.version.indexOf('0.0.0') !== 0) {
+if (pkg.version.indexOf('0.0.0') !== 0 && options.noUpdateNotifier !== true) {
   require('update-notifier')({ pkg }).notify();
 }
diff --git a/lib/cli/parse.js b/lib/cli/parse.js
index 789fe6ea..4c0fa8fc 100644
--- a/lib/cli/parse.js
+++ b/lib/cli/parse.js
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ function nodemonOption(options, arg, eatNext) {
     options.version = true;
   } else
 
+  if (arg === '--no-update-notifier') {
+    options.noUpdateNotifier = true;
+  } else
+
+
   if (arg === '--dump') {
     options.dump = true;
   } else