Comparison

Ask Piper vs Headtable

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Ask Piper

This AI-powered shopping guide offers personalized recommendations for fashion, beauty, and home products. It provides curated picks based on data and testing, helping users discover better brands and smarter shopping experiences.

Highlights
  • AI-powered product discovery
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Fashion, beauty, and home categories
  • Curated picks
  • Data-driven insights
  • Real-world testing
Features
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Most shopping and recommendation apps guess. Piper's AI tests. Get product and place recommendations backed by proprietary data and real-world testing — not aggregated reviews, not sponsored placement, not social media noise. Ask Piper what to buy or where to go, and get a short, direct answer you can act on. Fashion, beauty, home, and more — product picks with real testing behind them Restaurants, bars, and things to do — place picks that open at the right pin, not the middle of the city Follow-up questions like "something cheaper" build on your last answer No feeds, no scrolling — just the answer Piper is built for people who want a decision, not a list of options. https://www.askpiper.ai/terms-of-use

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Headtable

Features
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Design your floor plan to scale, collect RSVPs online and seat every guest — in one app, for one price. Headtable is the seating chart planner for weddings, receptions, banquets and parties, from a dinner party to 100 tables. Lay out the room, seat guests on the floor plan or from a list of tables, plan with your partner and print a chart worthy of the day — offline, with no account. THE FLOOR PLAN • Enter your room's size and plan to scale — Headtable flags tables that sit too close • Set up the whole room in one step from your guest count and table size, up to 100 tables, and save a room to reuse for your next event • Round, oval, square, head and sweetheart tables, banquets up to 60 chairs, one-sided or joined tables • Dance floor, DJ booth, bar, cake and gift tables, stage; trace your venue from a photo or floor plan (Pro) SEATING • Switch between the floor plan and a list of tables with every guest's name • Drag a guest onto any seat, or tap them to pick a table by how full it is and where their group sits • Go to any table by name, search any guest, and tap anyone at a table to edit their group, meal, dietary needs, VIP status or note • Seat the head table first; Auto-arrange fills the rest, keeps families together and follows your rules • Keep-together and keep-apart rules that nudge you, and never block you • Lock finished tables, mix up the seats at a dinner party, undo anything, and keep unseated guests in a tray • No list yet? Type the names you know and each guest takes a seat as you type GUEST LIST • Groups (the Smiths +2), RSVP status, meal choice, dietary needs, VIPs, kids' meals and a note on any guest • Paste a whole list, import from Contacts, or open a CSV or Excel file, including exports from Zola, The Knot and Joy • Export your guest list as a CSV at any time, free PLAN TOGETHER • Up to four people — your partner, a parent, your planner — edit the same plan from their own phones, even on another Apple Account, and changes appear in seconds. Inviting needs Pro; joining is free INVITATIONS & RSVP • Send each guest or household a private link; they reply without an app or account: coming or not, their meal, allergies, and a plus-one if you allow it • Replies land on your guest list and free the seats of anyone who can't come FOR THE CATERER AND THE DAY • Per-table view with meal counts, and a printed chart color-coded by meal • A web page for your venue and caterer with every table, meal and dietary need, updated as you change seats (Pro) • One tap turns the finished chart into a PDF for Messages, WhatsApp or Mail • Send each guest their seat in a personal text or email: "You're at Table 4" • Day-of check-in at the door, from one phone or several • Quiet reminders 8, 4 and 2 weeks out, so late replies and plus-ones still get a seat PRINT & SHARE • The full print pack (Pro): a clean seating chart, per-table lists, an alphabetical escort list and a caterer meal summary in eight designs, plus place cards and table-number cards • A find-my-seat QR code (Pro): guests scan it at the door, type their name and see their table • A free Story card: your names, date and design as a picture for Instagram or TikTok • Several events, and Duplicate to try a second seating plan (Pro) WORKS OFFLINE, PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your guest list and chart live on your iPhone or iPad, so Headtable works with no connection. Invitation links, the find-my-seat and venue pages and a shared plan upload only what they need — never phone numbers or emails — and are deleted 30 days after the event. No account, no ads, no tracking. HONEST PRICING Free: your whole guest list, unlimited tables and rules, up to 50 seated guests, invitations with your first 8 replies, your chart as a PDF, and joining a shared plan. Headtable Pro, one purchase with Family Sharing, seats everyone and adds every reply, the full print pack, the QR code, the venue page, a venue photo, planning together and extra events. No subscription, ever.

Screenshots

Ask Piper4 screens
Headtable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ask Piper at none against Headtable's 1. Ask Piper also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Headtable's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Headtable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ask Piper asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ask Piper ships an update every 2 weeks, Headtable every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Ask Piper versus Headtable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsk PiperHeadtable
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGetHarper LLCEvatech Innovations,TOO

In-app purchases

None

Ask Piper

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Headtable

One-time1
  • Headtable Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Ask Piper free?
Ask Piper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Headtable free?
Headtable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ask Piper or Headtable have ads?
Neither Ask Piper nor Headtable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ask Piper or Headtable?
Ask Piper ships an update every 2 weeks, and Headtable every 3 days. Most recently, Ask Piper was updated on October 24, 2026 and Headtable on October 24, 2026.

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