diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6ff2f90..d905c43 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ node_modules
 *.sock
 npm-debug.log
 yarn.lock
+.idea
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 6d4271a..f0b24e6 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ These are keys in the options object you can pass to the progress bar along with
 - `renderThrottle` minimum time between updates in milliseconds defaulting to 16
 - `clear` option to clear the bar on completion defaulting to false
 - `callback` optional function to call when the progress bar completes
+- `isRtlOn` a boolean value that indicates if the bar's direction should progress from right to the left direction (default: `false`).
 
 ### Tokens
 
diff --git a/lib/node-progress.js b/lib/node-progress.js
index 8eb0740..5e0d2b8 100644
--- a/lib/node-progress.js
+++ b/lib/node-progress.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function ProgressBar(fmt, options) {
   this.curr = options.curr || 0;
   this.total = options.total;
   this.width = options.width || this.total;
-  this.clear = options.clear
+  this.clear = options.clear;
   this.chars = {
     complete   : options.complete || '=',
     incomplete : options.incomplete || '-',
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ function ProgressBar(fmt, options) {
   this.callback = options.callback || function () {};
   this.tokens = {};
   this.lastDraw = '';
+  this.isRtlOn = options.isRtlOn || false;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -165,7 +166,9 @@ ProgressBar.prototype.render = function (tokens, force) {
     complete = complete.slice(0, -1) + this.chars.head;
 
   /* fill in the actual progress bar */
-  str = str.replace(':bar', complete + incomplete);
+  var barDataLtr = complete + incomplete;
+  var barData = this.isRtlOn ? barDataLtr : [...barDataLtr].reverse().join('');
+  str = str.replace(':bar', barData);
 
   /* replace the extra tokens */
   if (this.tokens) for (var key in this.tokens) str = str.replace(':' + key, this.tokens[key]);