diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index c40161b..625886c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ To make it run, you just have to do something like::
 
     $ virtualenv venv
     $ source venv/bin/activate
-    $ pip install flask flask-wtf flask-sqlalchemy
+    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
     $ cd budget
     $ python budget.py
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ To deploy it, I'm using gunicorn and supervisord::
 
     $ virtualenv venv
     $ source venv/bin/activate
-    $ pip install flask flask-wtf flask-sqlalchemy gunicorn --upgrade
+    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 1. Add the lines in conf/supervisord.conf to your supervisord.conf file.
    **adapt them to your paths!**
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e254ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+flask
+flask-wtf
+flask-sqlalchemy
+flask-mail