diff --git a/cadabra2-gtk.appdata.xml b/cadabra2-gtk.appdata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbfaede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cadabra2-gtk.appdata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<component>
+  <id>cadabra2-gtk.desktop</id>
+  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
+  <name>Cadabra 2</name>
+  <project_license>GPL-3.0+</project_license>
+  <summary>A computer algebra system for problems in field theory</summary>
+  <url type="homepage">http://cadabra.science/</url>
+  <description>
+    <p>Cadabra2 is a computer algebra system (CAS) designed specifically for
+the solution of problems encountered in field theory.</p>
+    <p>It has been designed specifically for the solution of problems encountered
+in quantum and classical field theory. It has extensive functionality
+for tensor computer algebra, tensor polynomial simplification
+including multi-term symmetries, fermions and anti-commuting
+variables, Clifford algebras and Fierz transformations, implicit
+coordinate dependence, multiple index types and many more. The input
+format is a subset of TeX.</p>
+  </description>
+  <screenshots>
+    <screenshot type="default">
+      <image height="1440" width="1192">https://cadabra.science/static/images/screenshot.png</image>
+      <caption>Gamma matrix algebra in a Cadabra2 notebook</caption>
+    </screenshot>
+  </screenshots>
+  <update_contact>info@cadabra.science</update_contact>
+</component>
diff --git a/cadabra2.changes b/cadabra2.changes
index 49846a8..32ccad5 100644
--- a/cadabra2.changes
+++ b/cadabra2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul 20 22:52:55 UTC 2017 - badshah400@gmail.com
+
+- Add an appdata file and install it to /usr/share/metainfo;
+  BuildRequires on appstream-glib added.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jun 25 11:26:09 UTC 2017 - badshah400@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/cadabra2.spec b/cadabra2.spec
index 83303cf..6194d7d 100644
--- a/cadabra2.spec
+++ b/cadabra2.spec
@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Math
 Url:            http://cadabra.science/
 Source0:        https://github.com/kpeeters/cadabra2/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        %{name}-rpmlintrc
+Source2:        %{name}-gtk.appdata.xml
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM cadabra2-cmake-error.patch badshah400@gmail.com -- Cmake needs to call "execute_process" instead of "execute"; fixes build failures
 Patch0:         cadabra2-cmake-error.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM cadabra2-include-functional-header.patch badshah400@gmail.com -- Explicitly include the <functional> header in core/Functional.hh to fix building on openSUSE > 1320; apply without conditionals as it doesn't hurt to have this generally
 Patch1:         cadabra2-include-functional-header.patch
+BuildRequires:  appstream-glib
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  doxygen
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -192,6 +194,9 @@ popd
 
 %suse_update_desktop_file cadabra2-gtk
 
+# INSTALL APPDATA TO /usr/share/metainfo
+install -D -m0644 %{S:2} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo/%{name}-gtk.appdata.xml
+
 %post
 %{_bindir}/texhash
 /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -233,6 +238,8 @@ popd
 %{_bindir}/%{name}-gtk
 %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/cadabra2-gtk.*
 %{_datadir}/applications/cadabra2-gtk.desktop
+%dir %{_datadir}/metainfo
+%{_datadir}/metainfo/*.appdata.xml
 
 %files examples
 %defattr(-,root,root)