diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/Manifest b/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/Manifest
index c7abf3e595..bad423dd13 100644
--- a/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/Manifest
+++ b/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ DIST noctalia-greeter-1.2.1.tar.gz 1898496 BLAKE2B 7c7359c153bf88f620a1cf27a4f95
 DIST noctalia-greeter-1.3.0.tar.gz 1917752 BLAKE2B 755b5e97b5bc680c728296d775cf9fdb6c5593fe8b9ad8ac1071e7ee13656b03fc6885331d93aab1acb9d8c949419afca23b6cf8f648967e1bb9e22ab5052c9f SHA512 acd584ce54d7bc6a54fb21cedc523b474238a6e1290166c93628a0e567427fc20b2c8602eacab395ac618a6bb3d70eddb02b5879fd26f1c09aa5a9c1fd264f63
 DIST noctalia-greeter-1.3.1.tar.gz 1917759 BLAKE2B bbe6b93f5caefe7bb389a3b57dc84bb139315e69eb79e9cd17ddea1c3545f55f673d4e3ba156e6f965730c62018ea8ab8c63965c6a8461a0f5630197a13ea7dc SHA512 c36f93d7341db4cf201395351b1e3567f30a6435fdb05d64385a0cff9362f81d4896029706465ee46bf33875c6acbdcd50a9686ca819648ba959988f83a8eef5
 DIST noctalia-greeter-1.5.0.tar.gz 1955651 BLAKE2B 61db2f06d031e69e276a7952eaac4bf074f695b4e9074447bc45326dd856b1d37bc15bf7b52c504b1474d5eeb9280dd428d8d79a2e33fc13c78bdcd9511ac765 SHA512 9509b4d8062fd67cd340953da5135d48ca932cd5ed78f4cb77bede39bfd90de0675181dfd2e80bdeec1323e83323fc46e1ef02a4531df0b97184a33a91bc9086
+DIST noctalia-greeter-1.6.0.tar.gz 1979877 BLAKE2B ffe8f95bc4d2d2a0ad60d5ff6959149910b2442dfe7feb7e082e1f7cc76a5e0ed24ee8d90da4942438077cf94d97b98332fc4d0983a344a5856529efd17f038b SHA512 cff00e2bdad8cd468b87dd8a341bb014e03e73f7ed9b40b22299f5007b1fa8eda58693ae08bd8bd60962bb4aea9fa4d944dc8cb7cc664a3f6f55ba15ec5279c3
diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/noctalia-greeter-1.6.0.ebuild b/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/noctalia-greeter-1.6.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4fe964940a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-apps/noctalia-greeter/noctalia-greeter-1.6.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson optfeature tmpfiles
+
+DESCRIPTION="A minimal login greeter for greetd that matches Noctalia Shell"
+HOMEPAGE="https://noctalia.dev/ https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-greeter"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/noctalia-dev/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/noctalia-dev/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-cpp/tomlplusplus
+	dev-cpp/nlohmann_json
+	dev-libs/glib:2
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	dev-libs/libinput
+	dev-libs/wayland
+	dev-libs/stb
+	gnome-base/librsvg:2
+	gui-libs/greetd
+	gui-libs/wlroots:0.20=
+	media-libs/fontconfig
+	media-libs/freetype
+	media-libs/libwebp
+	media-libs/mesa
+	sys-apps/dbus
+	virtual/opengl
+	x11-libs/cairo[glib]
+	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
+	x11-libs/pango
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/wayland
+	dev-util/wayland-scanner
+	dev-libs/wayland-protocols
+"
+
+# TODO: unbundle tabler fonts
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# replace greetd user
+	sed -E -i 's/^(\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+)greeter(\s+)greeter(\s+)/\1greetd\2greetd\3/' data/tmpfiles.d/${PN}.conf
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+
+	# remove unneeded additional scripts
+	rm "${ED}"/usr/share/${PN}/*.sh || die
+
+	dotmpfiles data/tmpfiles.d/${PN}.conf
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	tmpfiles_process ${PN}.conf
+
+	optfeature "avatars" sys-apps/accountsservice
+}