diff --git a/www-apps/whoogle-search/files/whoogle.initd b/www-apps/whoogle-search/files/whoogle.initd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7695e805bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/whoogle-search/files/whoogle.initd
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+# Copyright 2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+name="Whoogle Search"
+description="A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine"
+command="/opt/whoogle-search/run"
+command_user="whoogle:whoogle"
+command_background=1
+pidfile="/run/whoogle.pid"
+output_log="/var/log/whoogle.log"
+error_log="${output_log}"
+
+depend() {
+	use logger net
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+	checkpath -fo whoogle:whoogle "/var/log/whoogle.log"
+	source "/etc/default/whoogle"
+}
+
diff --git a/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.3.ebuild b/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.3-r1.ebuild
similarity index 96%
rename from www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.3.ebuild
rename to www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.3-r1.ebuild
index 3ee914a883..61b960703a 100644
--- a/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.3.ebuild
+++ b/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.3-r1.ebuild
@@ -43,5 +43,6 @@ src_install() {
     insinto /usr/lib/sysusers.d/
     doins ${FILESDIR}/whoogle.conf
 
+    newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/whoogle.initd whoogle
     systemd_dounit ${FILESDIR}/whoogle.service
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.4.ebuild b/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.4-r1.ebuild
similarity index 96%
rename from www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.4.ebuild
rename to www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.4-r1.ebuild
index c419bbdc77..40c26760ef 100644
--- a/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.4.ebuild
+++ b/www-apps/whoogle-search/whoogle-search-0.8.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -44,5 +44,6 @@ src_install() {
     insinto /usr/lib/sysusers.d/
     doins ${FILESDIR}/whoogle.conf
 
+    newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/whoogle.initd whoogle
     systemd_dounit ${FILESDIR}/whoogle.service
 }