diff --git a/libsodium-uninstalled.pc.in b/libsodium-uninstalled.pc.in
index 6f43156e80..3d50230831 100644
--- a/libsodium-uninstalled.pc.in
+++ b/libsodium-uninstalled.pc.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
 Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
-Description: A portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API.
+Description: A modern and easy-to-use crypto library
 
 Libs: -L${pcfiledir}/src/libsodium -lsodium
 Cflags: -I${pcfiledir}/src/libsodium/include -I@top_srcdir@/src/libsodium/include -I@top_srcdir@/src/libsodium/include/sodium
diff --git a/libsodium.pc.in b/libsodium.pc.in
index 6a983d5ed1..19b3c1afc7 100644
--- a/libsodium.pc.in
+++ b/libsodium.pc.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ includedir=@includedir@
 
 Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
 Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
-Description: A portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API.
+Description: A modern and easy-to-use crypto library
 
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lsodium
 Cflags: -I${includedir}