diff --git a/dist.mak b/dist.mak
index f348cf39d8464..0ced3194579d1 100644
--- a/dist.mak
+++ b/dist.mak
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ else
   SYMFILE :=
 endif
 
-BINARIES = $(MAINBIN) castool chdman floptool imgtool jedutil ldresample ldverify nltool nlwav romcmp unidasm
+BINARIES = $(MAINBIN) castool chdman floptool imgtool jedutil ldresample ldverify nltool nlwav pngcmp romcmp unidasm
 SIMPLE_DIRS := ctrlr docs/legal docs/man docs/swlist hash ini/examples ini/presets
 LOCALISATIONS := $(wildcard language/*/*.mo)
 COPIED_FILES := COPYING uismall.bdf roms/dir.txt $(foreach DIR,$(SIMPLE_DIRS),$(wildcard $(DIR)/*)) language/LICENSE language/README.md $(LOCALISATIONS)
diff --git a/docs/man/pngcmp.1 b/docs/man/pngcmp.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dcff8adac0980
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/man/pngcmp.1
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+.\"  -*- nroff -*-
+.\"
+.\" pngcmp.1
+.\"
+.\" Man page created from usage info.
+.\" 
+.\" References
+.\" http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html
+.\"
+.TH PNGCMP 1 2026-02-23 0.289 "MAME PNG comparison tool"
+.\"
+.\" NAME chapter
+.SH NAME
+pngcmp \- MAME PNG comparison tool
+.\"
+.\" SYNOPSIS chapter
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B pngcmp
+.RI [ png1 ]
+.RI [ png2 ]
+.RI [ out ]
+.\"
+.\" DESCRIPTION chapter
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBpngcmp\fP is a tool developed to display the differences of two PNG images.
+.PP
+It generates an new images displaying the given PNGs side by side with an
+additional image containg the differening pixels.
+.\"
+.\" EXAMPLES chapter
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.B romcmp img001.png img001a.png diff.png
+.\"
+.\" SEE ALSO chapter
+.SH SEE ALSO
+mame(6)