diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6b19e90..c385115 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ elseif (UNIX)
         FILES pineapple-pictures.desktop
         DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/applications"
     )
+
+    # install app metadata file for appstream (and some other stuff using this metadata like snapcraft)
+    install (
+        FILES dist/appstream/net.blumia.pineapple-pictures.appdata.xml
+        DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/metainfo"
+    )
 endif()
 
 set (INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS
diff --git a/dist/appstream/net.blumia.pineapple-pictures.appdata.xml b/dist/appstream/net.blumia.pineapple-pictures.appdata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4382d81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dist/appstream/net.blumia.pineapple-pictures.appdata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<component type="desktop-application">
+  <id>net.blumia.pineapple-pictures</id>
+  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
+  <project_license>GPL-3.0+</project_license>
+  <name>Pineapple Pictures</name>
+  <name xml:lang="zh-CN">菠萝看图</name>
+  <summary>图像查看器</summary>
+  <description>
+    <p>Pineapple Pictures is a lightweight image viewer</p>
+    <p xml:lang="zh-CN">菠萝看图是一个轻量级的图像查看器</p>
+  </description>
+  <url type="homepage">https://github.com/BLumia/pineapple-pictures</url>
+  <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/BLumia/pineapple-pictures/issues</url>
+  <url type="donation">https://www.kde.org/community/donations/?app=$YOURBINARYNAME</url>
+  <provides>
+    <binary>ppic</binary>
+  </provides>
+</component>