A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a receiving material has a housing part with a muzzle part (20) on which a pressing contact sensor (21) is arranged, and has an extended position (22), in which the setting tool cannot be triggered and an actuation position (23), in which the setting tool can be triggered. A muzzle surface (24) on the muzzle part (20) serves in the normal application of the setting tool on a receiving material (U). In addition, a muzzle opening (25) is arranged on the muzzle part, relative to which at least two tilt points (K1, K2) are arranged opposite to each other in the muzzle region of the setting tool. The setting tool in the pressing contact position can be pivoted about these tilt points (K1, K2). For improving this type of setting tool, it is proposed that the first tilt edge (K1), which lies on the side of the muzzle opening (25) facing away from the pressing contact sensor (21), relative to a plane (E1) defined by the muzzle surface (24) and the tilt edge (K2), is displaced rearward by the dimension (n) towards the housing part. The second tilt edge (K2) thus lies on the same side of the muzzle opening (25) as the pressing contact sensor (21).