Written in C using GLib-2.0 and GTK+-3.0/2.0, Toffee aims to be a simple and flexible tool to bring ease to the lives of worldwide teachers who, frequently, re-use questions on tests and homework for their students, but have no means of organising and managing this data.

It will support connecting to a PostgreSQL database server, but it could be easily extended (through plug-ins) to work with any database system. It will also support simple text formatting capabilities, question attachments like graphs and figures, and allow questions to be converted to text document formats - RTF and LaTeX - for compositing and printing.