diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a7bbfd2b..5a814a81 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@ entry-points."napari.manifest".movement = "movement.napari:napari.yaml"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 # will change to brainglobe-utils[qt]>=0.6 after release
-napari = ["brainglobe-utils>=0.5", "qtpy", "superqt"]
+napari = [
+  "brainglobe-atlasapi>=2.0.7",
+  "brainglobe-utils>=0.5",
+  "qtpy",
+  "superqt",
+]
 dev = [
   "pytest",
   "pytest-cov",