Wedding Countdown vs Wedding Seating Chart Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wedding Countdown
This app helps you count down to your wedding day with highly customizable features. Personalize your countdown with various units, photos, music, and display options. Track anniversaries and share your excitement with loved ones.
- Flexible countdown units (days, hours, seconds, custom)
- Customizable background photos and filters
- Personalize with your favorite song
- Draggable and customizable countdown display
- Track anniversaries
- Share countdowns via social media or email
- Multiple countdowns for events
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Count down to your wedding with all these customizable features! • FLEXIBLE countdown units - works in any combo of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds, and even special units like “heartbeats” and “kisses”! (eg. “3 months 15 days” or "82 kisses") • FILTERS for background photos! • Any PHOTOS - your own or from our wealthy library of free photos, sort them and flip through them while counting down! • Your SONG - personalize the countdown with your favorite love song. • DRAGGABLE countdown display - position it wherever you want. • FONT types, font colors, background colors - select from a list of fonts and change the font color and background color of the countdown display. • TRACK ANNIVERSARIES - re-live the magical moment of your wedding! • SMART TOOLBAR - hidden until you tab on the screen, lets you fully enjoy the countdown view. • Works in PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE modes. • SHARE a live Countdown or a screenshot of your Countdown with FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER or EMAIL. +++ Premium Features +++ + FRAMES and all FILTERS for background photos! + Your OWN PHRASE - "we become Mr. & Mrs.", "the start of our beautiful journey", "our forever starts". + SLIDESHOW mode with customizable animation styles and speeds. + MULTIPLE countdowns - bridal shower, pre-wedding party, the wedding day - count down to all of them and order them in the way you like. Congratulations on your wedding! Fill each moment with the excitement of anticipation. Make each second count!
Wedding Seating Chart Planner
Create event layouts and manage guest lists for various occasions. Organize seating arrangements, track RSVPs, and build guest menus. Collaborate with others and share your event plans easily.
- Extensive item library (tables, seats, dance floor)
- Guest list builder with RSVP tracking
- Event checklist and due date management
- Guest menu building
- Import guest list from spreadsheet
- Guest +1s and party grouping
- Collaborative event planning
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Seat Puzzle is the best way to create lightweight mockups for your events. Professionals use Seat Puzzle to manage events for all their clients and look great on the job. Easily organize your space, manage the guest list, and keep track of RSVPs. It‘s great for weddings, corporate events, social parties, baby showers, trivia night, and more. Features include: · An extensive item library including tables and seats, the dance floor, the DJ Booth. · Guest list builder. Keep track of RSVPs, see who's coming, how many guests are VIPs or children. · Keep track of your event checklist and due dates. Check things off as you go. · Build a guest menu and see a breakdown of who ordered what. · Import a guest list from a spreadsheet. · Guest +1s and guest parties to group guests together into any size party. · Build a floor plan up to 500 ft by 500 ft. Supports metric system. · Includes audio / video, computer equipment, sports, and outdoors items for even more types of events. · Collaborate with friends, family, clients, and vendors together on your event. · Share a PDF or a photo of your floor plans with your clients, vendors, event planner, wedding coordinator, or significant other. · Print your floor plan or post it to social media. · Works 100% offline. · Automatically syncs through your Seat Puzzle account across all your devices. · Create and manage unlimited events. · Add custom photo items to your floor plan catalog. · Draw custom venue outlines and set floor plan backgrounds. · Use the table wizard to estimate tables from guest count and seats per table. · Plan with round, rectangle, square, oval, U-shaped, and serpentine tables. · Add highboys, theater chairs, benches, pews, walls, doors, windows, and room segments. · Customize the grid with dots or lines, spacing, and color. · Control item names, dimensions, font size, and seat label display. · Show guest names as initials, first names, or full names. · Highlight guest parties and tags directly on seats. · Update guests in bulk, including attendance, tags, parties, and seating. · Seat multiple guests together at the same table. · Track attendance for individual guests or whole parties. · View guest reports for seating, RSVPs, VIPs, children, infants, and accessibility needs. · Export guest spreadsheets to CSV. · Customize PDF exports with guest pages, grouping, sorting, and rotation. · Reuse event templates or copy an existing floor plan. · Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for countdowns, event summaries, and event lists. · Use App Shortcuts to open events, add guests, and search events. · Share view-only or editable event links with permissions, recipients, login options, and expiry dates. Download and try a free demo today! About the Seat Puzzle Membership Subscription: • Seat Puzzle is available as a subscription on either a weekly, monthly, or annual recurring basis, cancelable at any time. • Payment is charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. • Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited when purchasing a new subscription. Privacy policy: https://seatpuzzle.com/privacy.html Terms of use: https://seatpuzzle.com/termsofuse.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wedding Countdown at 73% against Wedding Seating Chart Planner's 31%. Wedding Countdown also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.2). Wedding Seating Chart Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Wedding Countdown sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Wedding Seating Chart Planner sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wedding Seating Chart Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 336 and 390 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Wedding Countdown's written reviews are positive against 31% of Wedding Seating Chart Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Wedding Countdown ships an update every 4 months, Wedding Seating Chart Planner every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wedding Countdown | Wedding Seating Chart Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (336 ratings) | 4.5 (390 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.0% of reviews — better | 31.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 336 | 390 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sevenlogics, Inc. | Puzzle Party, LLC |
Customer experience
Wedding Countdown
Wedding Seating Chart Planner
User reviews
Wedding Countdown
From 336 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Great countdown app
- 👍 Customizable with own photos and music
- 😊 Helpful for wedding planning
- 🎉 Fun and exciting to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches with sharing/posting
- 💸 Paid version not worth the cost
- 🙄 Annoying ads in free version
- 😕 Limited customization options
Wedding Seating Chart Planner
From 390 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and figure out
- 👍 Helpful for seating arrangements
- 👍 Great for event planning
- 👍 Good customer service response
- 👍 Useful for visualizing layouts
Room to improve
- 💸 Expensive subscription price
- 🐛 Glitchy and unreliable
- 🐛 Constantly rearranges layouts
- 🐛 Duplicates guests in seating charts
- 🐛 Guests can be replaced by plus ones
Bugs and requests
Wedding Countdown
Reported bugs
4 issues- Countdown displaying incorrect number of days
- Music not playing when sharing countdown
- Slideshow not working as expected
- App crashing or freezing
Requested features
4 requests- Option to display countdown on lock screen or home screen
- Ability to share full slideshow with music on social media
- More background image options or ability to use own photos
- Improved accuracy of countdown timer
Wedding Seating Chart Planner
Reported bugs
28 issues- Ruined charts with incorrect table settings
- Tables and centerpieces reappearing
- App constantly rearranges table layouts
- Guest list duplicates guests
- Plus one replaces original guest name
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- App glitches when opening, data appears lost
- Undo option forgets some moves, deletes names
- App freezes/crashes when moving people
- Guest seating chart keeps moving around
- App crushes on phone and Mac
- Free trial stops plan mid-way without warning
- App is buggy with incomplete features
- Buttons would not work, unresponsive to touch
- App crashes when trying to move anyone around
- App glitches out when trying to add guests
- Venue size changed automatically and couldn't revert
- Tap screen giving trouble to move tables
- Difficulty using phone with the app
- App does not update or change after purchase
- Cannot get into the app
- Objects do not move once placed on canvas
- App is unuseable
- App is not easy to use
- Cannot turn tables at certain angles
- Free trial gives pop-up to pay to continue
- App doesn't seem to provide measurements for setup
- Layout design elements are hard to align
- App freezes/crashes when trying to move people around
Requested features
20 requests- Basic instructions would be nice
- More building shapes (hexagons, octagons)
- Adjustable shapes and background scaling
- Ability to rotate items/tables
- More customization for seats at tables
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- Ability to add text
- Change color of seating
- Differentiate different seats
- Add notes for spacing
- Stadium or concert seating options
- Better instructions on how to use it
- Copy/Mirror option for layout elements
- Food table icons
- Larger dance floor options
- More features in the professional app
- Greater variety of colors
- Instructions on how to use the program effectively
- Modify multiple table measurements
- Add seats on the table
- Add Audio visual elements
In-app purchases
Wedding Countdown
- Premium Backgrounds I$0.99
- Premium$3.99
Wedding Seating Chart Planner
- Wedding Planning Saver$3.991 Month
- Pro Membership - Weekly$5.997 Days
- Seat Puzzle Monthly Saver$7.991 Month
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- Seat Puzzle Easter Egg Promo1 Month trial$13.991 Month
- Monthly Membership Pro Seating1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Membership for Year3 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Pro Membership - Annual3 Days trial$129.991 Year
- Seat Puzzle - All Access$139.99
Questions
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