diff --git a/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest b/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest
index fa5c04de2f..d79d8607c4 100644
--- a/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST aw-core-0.11.0.tar.gz 74757 BLAKE2B 192d5a101e9e01e8de65a5c2aa20a9636ff0476d294951f765b344889ff41ac2dbb0c8b5d2d1b884f96c963219541088b629794f1cf97c9b41c6bda29235c3ec SHA512 4d48d8debb12530c78ef09b1a12530bb10ab2caac4d2a7da1c642afffe26f08b9db60c21576b5d711fd10e47c9b905dbd3a2fb5f72998077e5f7393f9c6edde6
+DIST aw-core-0.5.16.tar.gz 70074 BLAKE2B 66cb3f8fcacd5273b393cda80a2df3c11d1ad083d28ac4e7334d36ee4c739564f6324830f6e572578a76ab4e08463e5a2ce65dd9e1b6db61f4b1b1ed5d93c6ac SHA512 58aa9242d5e1e9ff6bc64d1a74069c1c5713a49f975dccc8230752d8f182ff1f8ce492bd6bcadc87fcb0e84e3d7d92fbeeda4713d08b2bb58ec214521da67fbd
diff --git a/app-misc/aw-core/aw-core-0.5.16.ebuild b/app-misc/aw-core/aw-core-0.5.16.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9bc95dde01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/aw-core/aw-core-0.5.16.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=poetry
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Core library for ActivityWatch"
+HOMEPAGE="https://activitywatch.net"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/ActivityWatch/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MPL-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/appdirs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/deprecation[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/iso8601[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/jsonschema[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/peewee[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/rfc3339-validator[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/strict-rfc3339[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/TakeTheTime[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/timeslot[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/tomlkit[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest