diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 896791cab3..d5ca42fb00 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -2824,6 +2824,7 @@ F:	package/biosdevname/
 N:	Saeed Kazemi <kazemi.ms@gmail.com>
 F:	package/eza/
 F:	package/procs/
+F:	package/mxt-app/
 F:	package/zoxide/
 
 N:	Sam Lancia <sam@gpsm.co.uk>
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 2b71978112..34ce57f5cf 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ endmenu
 	source "package/mhz/Config.in"
 	source "package/minicom/Config.in"
 	source "package/msr-tools/Config.in"
+	source "package/mxt-app/Config.in"
 	source "package/nanocom/Config.in"
 	source "package/neard/Config.in"
 	source "package/nvidia-driver/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/mxt-app/Config.in b/package/mxt-app/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96085e7f7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/mxt-app/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_MXT_APP
+	bool "mxt-app"
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libusb
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # libusb
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUSB
+	help
+	  mxt-app is a utility for managing Atmel maXTouch touch
+	  controllers and other devices that support Atmel Object Based
+	  Protocol.
+
+	  https://github.com/atmel-maxtouch/mxt-app/
+
+comment "mxt-app needs a toolchain w/ threads, gcc >= 4.9"
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
diff --git a/package/mxt-app/mxt-app.hash b/package/mxt-app/mxt-app.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b7851cea37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/mxt-app/mxt-app.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  3639720ae1ea033bd982d68c5cab84432ce046fe14a66d9b2de07f115b642722  mxt-app-1.36.tar.gz
+sha256  3682b125a40a4da00b6ab69bdbd38c25ed4beae69b3fe32458d2e32638477c4c  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/mxt-app/mxt-app.mk b/package/mxt-app/mxt-app.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3da1458978
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/mxt-app/mxt-app.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# mxt-app
+#
+################################################################################
+
+MXT_APP_VERSION = 1.36
+MXT_APP_SITE = $(call github,atmel-maxtouch,mxt-app,v$(MXT_APP_VERSION))
+MXT_APP_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause
+MXT_APP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+MXT_APP_DEPENDENCIES = libusb
+MXT_APP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+# From a git tree: no generated autotools files
+MXT_APP_AUTORECONF = YES
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_ENABLE_RUNTIME_DEBUG),y)
+MXT_APP_CONF_OPTS += --enable-debug
+else
+MXT_APP_CONF_OPTS += --disable-debug
+endif
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))