diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8bade8c..6f3d2e9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 .flatpak-builder/*
 /build*/
 AndroidManifest.xml
+/src/version.h
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index ba44c69..795a936 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ add_subdirectory(model)
 add_subdirectory(validators)
 add_subdirectory(app)
 
+configure_file ("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/version.h.in" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.h")
+
 set(keysmith_SRCS
     main.cpp
 )
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 25c7cd8..e742f9f 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #include "validators/issuervalidator.h"
 #include "validators/secretvalidator.h"
 
+#include "version.h"
+
 /*
  * Integrate QML debugging/profiling support, conditional on building Keysmith in Debug mode.
  * NDEBUG is defined by the C standard and automatically set by CMake during a Release type build, hence the double negative.
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ Q_DECL_EXPORT int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     QCoreApplication::setOrganizationName(QStringLiteral("KDE"));
     QCoreApplication::setOrganizationDomain(QStringLiteral("kde.org"));
     QCoreApplication::setApplicationName(QStringLiteral("Keysmith"));
+    QCoreApplication::setApplicationVersion(KEYSMITH_VERSION_STRING);
     QGuiApplication::setApplicationDisplayName(i18nc("@title", "Keysmith"));
 
     QCommandLineParser cliParser;
diff --git a/src/version.h.in b/src/version.h.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e56c515
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/version.h.in
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Johan Ouwerkerk <jm.ouwerkerk@gmail.com>
+ */
+#ifndef KEYSMITH_VERSION_H
+#define KEYSMITH_VERSION_H
+
+#include <QString>
+
+#define KEYSMITH_VERSION_STRING (QStringLiteral("@keysmith_VERSION@"))
+
+#endif