diff --git a/plumbum/cli/application.py b/plumbum/cli/application.py
index 75bad0e36..a1d017ecd 100644
--- a/plumbum/cli/application.py
+++ b/plumbum/cli/application.py
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import functools
+import re
 from textwrap import TextWrapper
 from collections import defaultdict
 
-from plumbum.lib import six, getdoc
+from plumbum.lib import six, getdoc, get_main_module_frame
 from .terminal import get_terminal_size
 from .switches import (SwitchError, UnknownSwitch, MissingArgument, WrongArgumentType,
     MissingMandatorySwitch, SwitchCombinationError, PositionalArgumentsError, switch,
@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ def __repr__(self):
 # CLI Application base class
 #===================================================================================================
 
+main_module_ending_rx=re.compile("\.__main__$")
+
 class Application(object):
     """
     The base class for CLI applications; your "entry point" class should derive from it,
@@ -142,7 +145,11 @@ def __init__(self, executable):
         # Filter colors
 
         if self.PROGNAME is None:
-            self.PROGNAME = os.path.basename(executable)
+            spec=get_main_module_frame().f_globals['__spec__']
+            if spec:
+                self.PROGNAME = " ".join(("python -m", main_module_ending_rx.sub("", spec.name)))
+            else:
+                self.PROGNAME = os.path.basename(executable)
         elif isinstance(self.PROGNAME, colors._style):
             self.PROGNAME = self.PROGNAME | os.path.basename(executable)
         elif colors.filter(self.PROGNAME) == '':
diff --git a/plumbum/lib.py b/plumbum/lib.py
index 69ffe15ba..5e67375f8 100644
--- a/plumbum/lib.py
+++ b/plumbum/lib.py
@@ -141,3 +141,12 @@ def read_fd_decode_safely(fd, size=4096):
             if i == 3:
                 raise
             data += os.read(fd.fileno(), 1)
+
+def get_main_module_frame():
+    """
+    Gets the frame of the __main__ module (the one which is called with command line) of an app.
+    """
+    fr=sys._getframe(0)
+    while fr and fr.f_globals['__name__'] != '__main__':
+        fr=fr.f_back
+    return fr