diff --git a/devel/Makefile b/devel/Makefile
--- a/devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/Makefile
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@
     SUBDIR += app-builder
     SUBDIR += appstream
     SUBDIR += appstream-glib
+    SUBDIR += appstream-qt
     SUBDIR += apr1
     SUBDIR += arachne-pnr
     SUBDIR += arcanist
diff --git a/devel/appstream-qt/Makefile b/devel/appstream-qt/Makefile
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/appstream-qt/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+PKGNAMESUFFIX=	Qt
+
+COMMENT?=	Qt bindings to AppStream
+
+LIB_DEPENDS=	libappstream.so:devel/appstream
+
+USES=		qt:5
+
+USE_QT=		core buildtools:build qmake:build testlib:build
+
+MESON_ARGS=	-Dqt=true
+
+MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../appstream
+PLIST=		${.CURDIR}/pkg-plist
+
+post-install:
+	# remove files belonging to the master port
+	${XARGS} -L 1 -I % ${RM} -rf ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/% < ${MASTERDIR}/pkg-plist
+	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX} -empty -delete
+	${RM} -rf ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/man
+
+.include	"${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"
diff --git a/devel/appstream-qt/pkg-plist b/devel/appstream-qt/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/appstream-qt/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+include/AppStreamQt/appstreamqt_export.h
+include/AppStreamQt/bundle.h
+include/AppStreamQt/category.h
+include/AppStreamQt/component.h
+include/AppStreamQt/contentrating.h
+include/AppStreamQt/icon.h
+include/AppStreamQt/image.h
+include/AppStreamQt/launchable.h
+include/AppStreamQt/metadata.h
+include/AppStreamQt/pool.h
+include/AppStreamQt/provided.h
+include/AppStreamQt/relation.h
+include/AppStreamQt/release.h
+include/AppStreamQt/screenshot.h
+include/AppStreamQt/spdx.h
+include/AppStreamQt/suggested.h
+include/AppStreamQt/systeminfo.h
+include/AppStreamQt/translation.h
+include/AppStreamQt/utils.h
+include/AppStreamQt/version.h
+include/AppStreamQt/video.h
+lib/cmake/AppStreamQt/AppStreamQtConfig.cmake
+lib/cmake/AppStreamQt/AppStreamQtConfigVersion.cmake
+lib/libAppStreamQt.so
+lib/libAppStreamQt.so.0.16.0
+lib/libAppStreamQt.so.2
diff --git a/devel/appstream/Makefile b/devel/appstream/Makefile
--- a/devel/appstream/Makefile
+++ b/devel/appstream/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-PORTNAME=	AppStream
+# Some knobs are defined with ?= and += to allow them
+# being overriden by devel/appstream-qt slave port
+
+PORTNAME?=	AppStream
 DISTVERSION=	0.16.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://www.freedesktop.org/software/${PORTNAME:tl}/releases/
 
 MAINTAINER=	desktop@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Machine-readable software metadata for desktop environments
+COMMENT?=	Machine-readable software metadata for desktop environments
 WWW=		https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+ LGPL21+
@@ -14,20 +17,20 @@
 		gperf>0:devel/gperf \
 		itstool:textproc/itstool \
 		lmdb>0:databases/lmdb
-LIB_DEPENDS=	libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
+LIB_DEPENDS?=	libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		liblmdb.so:databases/lmdb \
 		libstemmer.so:textproc/snowballstemmer \
 		libxmlb.so:textproc/libxmlb \
 		libyaml.so:textproc/libyaml
 
-USES=		gettext gnome localbase:ldflags meson pkgconfig \
+USES+=		gettext gnome localbase:ldflags meson pkgconfig \
 		python:3.6+,build tar:xz vala:build
 
 USE_GNOME=	glib20 introspection:build libxml2 libxslt
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 CFLAGS+=	-D__BSD_VISIBLE=1
-MESON_ARGS=	-Dstemming=true \
+MESON_ARGS+=	-Dstemming=true \
 		-Dvapi=true \
 		-Dapidocs=false \
 		-Dinstall-docs=false \