A digital music stand built for Windows, running on PCs, laptops, tablets, and 2-in-1s. It looks and feels like a real Windows app, so it's intuitive from the first launch. View PDFs, annotate with pen and touch, build setlists, and turn pages hands-free.
A real Windows app
Most music apps on Windows are ports or web wrappers dressed in custom interfaces that don't behave like the rest of your PC. Standly is built natively for Windows, so it uses the controls, keyboard shortcuts, pen and touch, and high-DPI rendering you already know.
Designed for musicians who perform with any Windows device, whether that's a tablet on a stand or a laptop at the piano.
Open any PDF. Per-page rotation, zoom, and pan settings are remembered so your music is always framed right.
Mark up your music with ink, highlighters, and erasers. Annotations persist across sessions and follow your pages.
Group pieces in performance order. Restrict to specific page ranges and navigate seamlessly across documents.
Connect a Bluetooth foot pedal or remote for hands-free page turns. Customize button bindings to match your device.
See the bottom of the current page and top of the next at the same time. Never lose your place during a page turn.
No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Your music library and markings stay on your device.
Built for Windows, optimized for performance on stage.
Tap a Bluetooth pedal and Standly slides to the next page without missing a beat.
Everything you might want to know before you switch to Standly.
Yes, that's exactly why we built Standly. If you've moved to a Surface or another Windows tablet, you don't have to give up a polished music-stand experience. Standly is a native Windows app with PDF viewing, pen and touch annotations, setlists, and hands-free Bluetooth page turns, built specifically for Windows rather than ported from another platform.
Yes. Standly runs on any Windows 10 or 11 device, including Surface Pro, Surface Go, and other tablets and 2-in-1s, as well as laptops and desktops. It works on Intel and AMD machines and on ARM-based Windows devices such as the Surface Pro X and Copilot+ PCs. It's designed for touch and pen first, with smooth high-DPI rendering, so it feels right with a tablet on your music stand.
Most music apps on Windows are ports or web wrappers with custom interfaces that don't behave like a normal Windows app. Standly is built natively for Windows, so it uses familiar controls, real keyboard shortcuts, and proper pen and touch support, with nothing new to learn. It's also fully offline and a one-time purchase, with no accounts and no subscription.
Standly is a one-time purchase, with no subscription. Buy it once and the full music stand is yours. Down the road we may add optional advanced features (such as automatic music recognition) as a separate offering, but the music stand itself stays a one-time purchase.
No. Standly works completely offline, with no account or sign-in required. Your sheet music and annotations stay on your device, and there's no telemetry tracking what you play. Once it's installed, you never need a connection to use it.
Standly opens standard PDF sheet music today, the format most of your library is probably already in. Support for image files (scans and photos of music) is coming soon.
Yes. Annotate directly on the page with ink, highlighters, and an eraser, using a pen, your finger, or a mouse. Your markings save automatically and stay with the music across sessions, so they're there every time you reopen the piece.
Yes. Standly tracks each piece by its content, not just its file path, so your ink, highlights, and notes stay attached even if you move a file to a different folder or rename it. We put a lot of work into this, so you can reorganize your library however you like without any fear of losing your markup. Your annotations follow the music.
Yes. If you've already marked up your sheet music in another app, Standly can import your annotations, notes, and other markup, so switching doesn't mean starting over. We're actively expanding the list of apps and formats we support, and we'd love to hear what you use, so send us your requests.
Standly supports popular Bluetooth controllers including AirTurn and Flic, and is likely compatible with other Bluetooth page-turn devices as well. You can customize which button turns the page in each direction to match your device.
Yes. Build setlists to put pieces in performance order, restrict them to specific page ranges, and move seamlessly from one document to the next, so your whole program flows without hunting for the next chart.
Standly runs on Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) and Windows 11, on any PC, laptop, tablet, or 2-in-1, with both Intel or AMD and ARM-based processors supported. It works with mouse, touch, and pen, so a touchscreen is great for annotating but isn't required.
Yes, Standly comes with a free 30-day trial, so you can use it on your own device with your real music and your own pedal before deciding. After the trial, it's a single one-time purchase.
Standly is available on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11, on any PC, laptop, tablet, or 2-in-1.
Requires Windows 10 version 1809 or later. Works with mouse, touch, and pen.