diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 `simple-cmd-args` uses [PVP Versioning](https://pvp.haskell.org).
 
+## 0.1.5 (2020-02-06)
+- add Eq and Ord instances for Subcommand
+
 ## 0.1.4 (2019-10-29)
 - export many, some, str
 - export <$> and <*> on older ghc7
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2019 Jens Petersen
+Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Jens Petersen
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/SimpleCmdArgs.hs b/SimpleCmdArgs.hs
--- a/SimpleCmdArgs.hs
+++ b/SimpleCmdArgs.hs
@@ -102,13 +102,21 @@
   (case mversion of
     (Just version) -> info (helper <*> versionOption version <*> cmdsParser) mods
     Nothing -> info (helper <*> cmdsParser) mods)
-  where 
+  where
     versionOption ver =
       infoOption (showVersion ver) (long "version" <> help "Show version")
 
 -- | > Subcommand "command" "help description text" $ myCommand <$> optParser
 data Subcommand =
   Subcommand String String (Parser (IO ()))
+
+-- @since 0.1.5
+instance Eq Subcommand where
+  (Subcommand n1 _ _) == (Subcommand n2 _ _) = n1 == n2
+
+-- @since 0.1.5
+instance Ord Subcommand where
+  compare (Subcommand n1 _ _) (Subcommand n2 _ _) = compare n1 n2
 
 -- | list of @Subcommand@ that can be run by @simpleCmdArgs@
 subcommands :: [Subcommand] -> Parser (IO ())
diff --git a/simple-cmd-args.cabal b/simple-cmd-args.cabal
--- a/simple-cmd-args.cabal
+++ b/simple-cmd-args.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:       1.18
 name:                simple-cmd-args
-version:             0.1.4
+version:             0.1.5
 synopsis:            Simple command args parsing and execution
 description:
             This is a small wrapper over optparse-applicative which
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Jens Petersen
 maintainer:          juhpetersen@gmail.com
-copyright:           2019 Jens Petersen
+copyright:           2019-2020 Jens Petersen
 category:            System
 build-type:          Simple
 extra-doc-files:     README.md
                    , CHANGELOG.md
 tested-with:         GHC == 7.4.2, GHC == 7.6.3, GHC == 7.8.4,
                      GHC == 7.10.3, GHC == 8.0.2, GHC == 8.2.2,
-                     GHC == 8.4.4, GHC == 8.6.5, GHC == 8.8.1
+                     GHC == 8.4.4, GHC == 8.6.5, GHC == 8.8.2
 
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   type:                git