diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 566b8e4f..bd34266c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ for a more complete list with additional info and links.
 - [Browser Requirements](#browser-requirements)
 - [Server Requirements](#server-requirements)
 - [Quick Start](#quick-start)
+- [Installation from Snap Package](#installation-from-snap-package)
 - [Integration and Deployment](#integration-and-deployment)
 - [Authors/Contributors](#authorscontributors)
 
@@ -115,6 +116,66 @@ proxy.
   script. Hit the Connect button, enter a password if the VNC server has one
   configured, and enjoy!
 
+### Installation from Snap Package
+Running the command below will install the latest release of noVNC from Snap:
+
+`sudo snap install novnc`
+
+#### Running noVNC
+
+You can run the Snap-package installed novnc directly with, for example:
+
+`novnc --listen 6081 --vnc localhost:5901 # /snap/bin/novnc if /snap/bin is not in your PATH`
+
+#### Running as a Service (Daemon)
+The Snap package also has the capability to run a 'novnc' service which can be 
+configured to listen on multiple ports connecting to multiple VNC servers 
+(effectively a service runing multiple instances of novnc).
+Instructions (with example values):
+
+List current services (out-of-box this will be blank):
+
+```
+sudo snap get novnc services
+Key             Value
+services.n6080  {...}
+services.n6081  {...}
+```
+
+Create a new service that listens on port 6082 and connects to the VNC server 
+running on port 5902 on localhost:
+
+`sudo snap set novnc services.n6082.listen=6082 services.n6082.vnc=localhost:5902`
+
+(Any services you define with 'snap set' will be automatically started)
+Note that the name of the service, 'n6082' in this example, can be anything 
+as long as it doesn't start with a number or contain spaces/special characters.
+
+View the configuration of the service just created:
+
+```
+sudo snap get novnc services.n6082
+Key                    Value
+services.n6082.listen  6082
+services.n6082.vnc     localhost:5902
+```
+
+Disable a service (note that because of a limitation in  Snap it's currently not 
+possible to unset config variables, setting them to blank values is the way 
+to disable a service):
+
+`sudo snap set novnc services.n6082.listen='' services.n6082.vnc=''`
+
+(Any services you set to blank with 'snap set' like this will be automatically stopped)
+
+Verify that the service is disabled (blank values):
+
+```
+sudo snap get novnc services.n6082
+Key                    Value
+services.n6082.listen  
+services.n6082.vnc
+```
 
 ### Integration and Deployment
 
diff --git a/snap/hooks/configure b/snap/hooks/configure
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ff4f8047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snap/hooks/configure
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+snapctl restart novnc.novncsvc
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e21ef6e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: novnc
+base: core18 # the base snap is the execution environment for this snap
+version: '1.1.0'
+summary: Open Source VNC client using HTML5 (WebSockets, Canvas)
+description: |
+  Open Source VNC client using HTML5 (WebSockets, Canvas).
+  noVNC is both a VNC client JavaScript library as well as an application built on top of that library. noVNC runs well in any modern browser including mobile browsers (iOS and Android).
+
+grade: stable
+confinement: strict
+
+parts:
+    novnc:
+        source: https://github.com/novnc/noVNC.git #https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/archive/v$SNAPCRAFT_PROJECT_VERSION.tar.gz 
+        plugin: dump
+        stage-packages:
+            - websockify
+            - bash
+            - jq
+            - python-numpy
+            - python3-numpy
+
+hooks:
+    configure:
+        plugs: [network, network-bind]
+
+apps:
+    novnc:
+        command: utils/launch.sh
+        plugs: [network, network-bind]
+    novncsvc:
+        command: utils/svc_wrapper.sh
+        daemon: forking
+        plugs: [network, network-bind]
diff --git a/utils/launch.sh b/utils/launch.sh
index 6138b911..4cb6fc2b 100755
--- a/utils/launch.sh
+++ b/utils/launch.sh
@@ -139,9 +139,12 @@ if [[ -d ${HERE}/websockify ]]; then
 
     echo "Using local websockify at $WEBSOCKIFY"
 else
-    WEBSOCKIFY=$(which websockify 2>/dev/null)
+    WEBSOCKIFY_FROMSYSTEM=$(which websockify 2>/dev/null)
+    WEBSOCKIFY_FROMSNAP=${HERE}/../usr/bin/python2-websockify
+    [ -f $WEBSOCKIFY_FROMSYSTEM ] && WEBSOCKIFY=$WEBSOCKIFY_FROMSYSTEM
+    [ -f $WEBSOCKIFY_FROMSNAP ] && WEBSOCKIFY=$WEBSOCKIFY_FROMSNAP
 
-    if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+    if [ ! -f "$WEBSOCKIFY" ]; then
         echo "No installed websockify, attempting to clone websockify..."
         WEBSOCKIFY=${HERE}/websockify/run
         git clone https://github.com/novnc/websockify ${HERE}/websockify
diff --git a/utils/svc_wrapper.sh b/utils/svc_wrapper.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..51d74645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/svc_wrapper.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# `snapctl get services` returns a JSON array, example:
+#{
+#"n6801": {
+#   "listen": 6801,
+#   "vnc": "localhost:5901"
+#},
+#"n6802": {
+#    "listen": 6802,
+#   "vnc": "localhost:5902"
+#}
+#}
+snapctl get services | jq -c '.[]' | while read service; do # for each service the user sepcified..
+    # get the important data for the service (listen port, VNC host:port)
+    listen_port="$(echo $service | jq --raw-output '.listen')"
+    vnc_host_port="$(echo $service | jq --raw-output '.vnc')" # --raw-output removes any quotation marks from the output
+    
+    # check whether those values are valid
+    expr "$listen_port" : '^[0-9]\+$' > /dev/null
+    listen_port_valid=$?
+    if [ ! $listen_port_valid ] || [ -z "$vnc_host_port" ]; then
+        # invalid values mean the service is disabled, do nothing except for printing a message (logged in /var/log/system or systemd journal)
+        echo "novnc: not starting service ${service} with listen_port ${listen_port} and vnc_host_port ${vnc_host_port}"
+    else
+        # start (and fork with '&') the service using the specified listen port and VNC host:port
+        $SNAP/utils/launch.sh --listen $listen_port --vnc $vnc_host_port &
+    fi
+done