diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 3d116a511..d81234106 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 include CMakeLists.txt
 recursive-include mlx/ *
 include python/src/*
+python/mlx/py.typed # support type hinting as in PEP-561
diff --git a/python/mlx/py.typed b/python/mlx/py.typed
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b1378917
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/mlx/py.typed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+