diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 33691d8..ceab31c 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ fastiv
 ======
 
 'fastiv' is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally
-raw photos, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF, or whatever gdk-pixbuf loads.
+raw photos, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF, or whatever gdk-pixbuf
+loads.
 
 It still has some road to go, but it's already become quite usable,
 and it has received basic polishing.
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ Building and Running
 Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config +
 Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, glib>=2.64, pixman-1, shared-mime-info,
 spng>=0.7.0, libturbojpeg +
-Optional dependencies: LibRaw, librsvg-2.0, xcursor, libheif, libtiff,
+Optional dependencies: LibRaw, librsvg-2.0, xcursor, libwebp, libheif, libtiff,
 gdk-pixbuf-2.0
 
  $ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv.git
diff --git a/fastiv-io.c b/fastiv-io.c
index 87e26b3..e637d1d 100644
--- a/fastiv-io.c
+++ b/fastiv-io.c
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_XCURSOR
 #include <X11/Xcursor/Xcursor.h>
 #endif  // HAVE_XCURSOR
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBWEBP
+#include <webp/decode.h>
+#endif  // HAVE_LIBWEBP
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBHEIF
 #include <libheif/heif.h>
 #endif  // HAVE_LIBHEIF
@@ -1110,6 +1113,67 @@ open_xcursor(const gchar *data, gsize len, GError **error)
 }
 
 #endif  // HAVE_XCURSOR --------------------------------------------------------
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBWEBP  //---------------------------------------------------------
+
+static cairo_surface_t *
+open_libwebp(const gchar *data, gsize len, GError **error)
+{
+	// It is wholly zero-initialized by libwebp.
+	WebPDecoderConfig config = {};
+	if (!WebPInitDecoderConfig(&config)) {
+		set_error(error, "libwebp version mismatch");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	// TODO(p): Differentiate between a bad WebP, and not a WebP.
+	VP8StatusCode err = 0;
+	if ((err = WebPGetFeatures((const uint8_t *) data, len, &config.input))) {
+		set_error(error, "WebP decoding error");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	cairo_surface_t *result = NULL;
+
+	cairo_surface_t *surface = cairo_image_surface_create(
+		config.input.has_alpha ? CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32 : CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24,
+		config.input.width, config.input.height);
+	cairo_status_t surface_status = cairo_surface_status(surface);
+	if (surface_status != CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+		set_error(error, cairo_status_to_string(surface_status));
+		goto fail;
+	}
+
+	config.options.use_threads = true;
+
+	config.output.width = config.input.width;
+	config.output.height = config.input.height;
+	config.output.is_external_memory = true;
+	config.output.u.RGBA.rgba = cairo_image_surface_get_data(surface);
+	config.output.u.RGBA.stride = cairo_image_surface_get_stride(surface);
+	config.output.u.RGBA.size =
+		config.output.u.RGBA.stride * cairo_image_surface_get_height(surface);
+	if (G_BYTE_ORDER == G_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
+		config.output.colorspace = MODE_bgrA;
+	else
+		config.output.colorspace = MODE_Argb;
+
+	if ((err = WebPDecode((const uint8_t *) data, len, &config))) {
+		set_error(error, "WebP decoding error");
+		goto fail;
+	}
+
+	// TODO(p): Extract metadata, support animations (has_animation).
+	result = surface;
+
+fail:
+	if (!result)
+		cairo_surface_destroy(surface);
+
+	WebPFreeDecBuffer(&config.output);
+	return result;
+}
+
+#endif  // HAVE_LIBWEBP --------------------------------------------------------
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBHEIF  //---------------------------------------------------------
 
 static cairo_surface_t *
@@ -1683,6 +1747,14 @@ fastiv_io_open_from_data(const char *data, size_t len, const gchar *path,
 			g_clear_error(error);
 		}
 #endif  // HAVE_XCURSOR --------------------------------------------------------
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBWEBP  //---------------------------------------------------------
+		if ((surface = open_libwebp(data, len, error)))
+			break;
+		if (error) {
+			g_debug("%s", (*error)->message);
+			g_clear_error(error);
+		}
+#endif  // HAVE_LIBWEBP --------------------------------------------------------
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBHEIF  //---------------------------------------------------------
 		if ((surface = open_libheif(data, len, path, error)))
 			break;
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index bbd0cc5..5538323 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ endif
 libraw = dependency('libraw', required : get_option('libraw'))
 librsvg = dependency('librsvg-2.0', required : get_option('librsvg'))
 xcursor = dependency('xcursor', required : get_option('xcursor'))
+libwebp = dependency('libwebp', required : get_option('libwebp'))
+libwebpdecoder = dependency('libwebpdecoder', required : get_option('libwebp'))
 libheif = dependency('libheif', required : get_option('libheif'))
 libtiff = dependency('libtiff-4', required : get_option('libtiff'))
 gdkpixbuf = dependency('gdk-pixbuf-2.0', required : get_option('gdk-pixbuf'))
@@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ dependencies = [
 	libraw,
 	librsvg,
 	xcursor,
+	libwebp,
+	libwebpdecoder,
 	libheif,
 	libtiff,
 	gdkpixbuf,
@@ -41,6 +45,7 @@ conf.set_quoted('PROJECT_VERSION', meson.project_version())
 conf.set('HAVE_LIBRAW', libraw.found())
 conf.set('HAVE_LIBRSVG', librsvg.found())
 conf.set('HAVE_XCURSOR', xcursor.found())
+conf.set('HAVE_LIBWEBP', libwebp.found())
 conf.set('HAVE_LIBHEIF', libheif.found())
 conf.set('HAVE_LIBTIFF', libtiff.found())
 conf.set('HAVE_GDKPIXBUF', gdkpixbuf.found())
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index f428622..3edd0e1 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ option('librsvg', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
 	description : 'Build with SVG support, requires librsvg')
 option('xcursor', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
 	description : 'Build with Xcursor support, requires libXcursor')
+option('libwebp', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
+	description : 'Build with WEBP support, requires libwebp')
 option('libheif', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
 	description : 'Build with HEIF/AVIF support, requires libheif')
 option('libtiff', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',