Throw that old pad of staff paper away!

Write your own music directly on your iPad using your Apple Pencil, finger or other stylus.

Optimized for Apple Pencil

Great for

Composers - staff paper always on-hand

Conductors - quickly write up notes for musicians

Educators - present your music to a screen or online meeting

NEW FEATURE

Copy/Paste with
Smart Selection

With Smart Selection you can draw a lasso around a portion of your drawing and it will automatically find the edges of anything that's been drawn. Then copy, paste or duplicate the item. No more drawing the same notes or lines of music over and over!

NEW FEATURE

Flexible Backgrounds

Now you can import your own PDFs as compositions or templates. Convert a multi-page PDF into a full composition with each page of your PDF set as the background to each page in the composition. Or convert a single page or the first page of a multi-page PDF into a new template.

You can also choose from some commonly used staff configurations and flag your favorites. Favorites and custom backgrounds will then appear under the Saved icon.

Show off Your Work

Share your ipad screen with Zoom, Microsoft Teams. Webcast to Wirecast or OBS. Beam to an Apple TV or plug into a TV or Projector. There are lots of ways to share your screen with others.

View our FAQ to learn how.

Share Your Work

It's easy to share your work with others through the sharing panel. Save to a cloud service, send via air play, email or even text your file to another Staff Sketch Pad 2 user.

Full Feature Set

Optimized for Apple Pencil

Standard Apple drawing tools

Change color, pen/pencil, thickness of stroke

Copy/paste to repeat notes or symbols easily

Use the standard eraser or special object eraser

Print your composition or save as PDF

Share Staff Sketch Pad compositions with other app users

Choose between 8 and 12 staves per page,
or from several common staff configurations as a background

Import your own background using Camera, Photos or PDF