diff --git a/docs/manpages/tlvdump.rst b/docs/manpages/tlvdump.rst
index eb50961..92c7225 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/tlvdump.rst
+++ b/docs/manpages/tlvdump.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 
 ``tlvdump`` is a simple application allowing to decode structure of TLV-encoded packet.
 
+Deprecated
+----------
+
+tlvdump is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of ndn-cxx.
+Please use ``ndn-dissect`` program from ndn-tools repository `<https://github.com/named-data/ndn-tools>`__.
+
 Usage
 -----
 
diff --git a/tools/tlvdump.cpp b/tools/tlvdump.cpp
index d45b6f1..ee5088c 100644
--- a/tools/tlvdump.cpp
+++ b/tools/tlvdump.cpp
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@
 
 int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
 {
+  std::cerr << "tlvdump is deprecated. Use ndn-dissect program from ndn-tools repository.\n"
+               "See `man tlvdump` for details." << std::endl;
+
   if (argc == 1 ||
       (argc == 2 && std::string(argv[1]) == "-"))
     {