Originally released for Windows 8 on 31 March 2015,[1][2][unreliable source?]

[3][4] Designed for composers, orchestrators, arrangers, songwriters, and teachers, StaffPad is used to create compositions, edit notation, and play back a score using samples.

[5] It features adaptive toolsets, a pressure-toggled Erase tool, and text recognition for musical notation.

[7] The Reader application communicates with StaffPad over a Wi-Fi network and displays an automatically formatted part for any musical staff contained in the full score.

The user is able to make changes to the full score with StaffPad, with the results updated automatically on all connected Readers.