TOAD® empowers developers and DBAs to be more productive by providing an intuitive graphical user interface to Oracle. TOAD is a powerful, low-overhead tool that makes PL/SQL development faster and easier and simplifies database administration tasks. Advanced editors allow users to work on multiple files simultaneously even different file types such as SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Java, and text. Hot keys, auto-correct, type-ahead, syntax highlighting, version control and numerous other productivity features speed development, while editing and testing are made easier with integrated result sets, explain plans, tracing, and DBMS_OUTPUT views.

TOAD for Oracle Freeware 8.5 was released by Quest Software on Friday 14 October 2005. Its known requirements are : Oracle Client.
TOAD for Oracle Freeware will run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP.