We show that a pluripotential proof of the uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem works also in the Hermitian case.Tosatti and Weinkove [15] recently proved a general L ∞ -estimate for the complex Monge-Ampère equation on compact Hermitian manifolds. This gave, using estimates proved earlier in [6,9,8,14], a generalization of the Calabi-Yau theorem [16] to the Hermitian case. Subsequently, the estimate from [15] was improved (with a different proof) by Dinew and Ko lodziej [7]. The aim of this note is to give yet another proof of this estimate. We will show that in fact a very simple modification of the proof for Kähler manifolds from [4] gives the required result.We assume that M is a compact complex manifold of complex dimension n equipped with Hermitian form ω. We will give a simple proof of the following estimate shown already in [7] (where the method from [11] was used):Main Theorem. Assume that ϕ ∈ C 2 (M ) is such that ω + dd c ϕ 0 and (ω + dd c ϕ) n = f ω n .