SnapSeat vs SeatCraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SnapSeat
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SnapSeat is the easiest seating chart maker for classrooms, offices, and events. Create beautiful seating plans in minutes with simple drag & drop. PERFECT FOR • Teachers — classroom seating charts and random seat shuffles made easy • Office managers — plan desk and seat arrangements • Event planners — organize seating for any venue • Weddings — design table layouts and guest seating plans for your big day KEY FEATURES Seating Chart Creator • Drag & drop to place seats anywhere on the canvas • Choose from circle, square, and other seat shapes • Add tables to recreate your real room layout • Pinch to zoom, swipe to pan — smooth canvas controls Seat Assignment & Shuffling • Random seat generator — shuffle all seats with one tap • Sequential assignment — fill seats in order automatically • Group-based seating — assign seats by team or group • Manual assignment — tap a participant, then tap a seat Participant Management • Add name lists quickly and easily • Organize participants into groups (teams, classes, tables) • See seat-to-participant mapping at a glance Export & Share • Save your seating chart as a PNG image • Share directly via email, messaging apps, or social media • Clean, print-ready output for posting in classrooms or venues Multiple Layouts • Save separate layouts for different rooms or events • Duplicate and edit layouts anytime • Access your past seating charts whenever you need them WHY SNAPSEAT? • Intuitive — no tutorials needed, start creating right away • Works offline — no internet connection required • Lightweight — won't slow down your phone • Fast — create a seating plan in under a minute HOW IT WORKS — 3 SIMPLE STEPS 1. Create a new layout 2. Drag seats and tables into place 3. Add participants, assign seats → save & share as image Make seating charts effortless with SnapSeat. Download free today! Subscription Info • SnapSeat Premium (Ad Removal) — auto-renewing monthly subscription • Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account upon purchase confirmation. • Manage or cancel your subscription in device Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://snap-seat.snap-tool.com/privacypolicy
SeatCraft
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[Set the rules once. Generate seating charts in seconds.] SeatCraft builds seating charts for mixers, workshops, training sessions and classrooms — and it respects the things you actually care about. Instead of shuffling names at random, you tell it the rules once, and the optimizer searches thousands of arrangements to find one that keeps them. ■ Three things SeatCraft does that a shuffle cannot 1. Tags that group together or spread apart Tag people however you like — a department, a team, a company, "needs the front row" — and choose whether that tag should sit together or be spread across the room, with a strength from 1 to 5. Mix several tags at once: spread the sales team, keep the new joiners together. 2. Pairs that are never seated together Add two people who should not sit next to each other, and they never will. This is an absolute rule, not a preference: if it cannot be satisfied, the app stops and tells you exactly which pair or which pinned seat is in the way, instead of quietly breaking it. 3. Printing, end to end The chart prints as a PDF (A4/A3 or Letter/Tabloid, with 2- or 4-page splitting for big rooms), and name cards and rosters print from the same screen. Fold-to-stand name cards, a list by table, a list by seat — the paperwork for the day is done in one place. ■ Everything else you need on the day ・Six layouts: rows facing the front, paired desks, islands, circles, U-shape, hollow square ・Round tables: choose whether "next to each other" means the two people beside you or the whole table ・Several rounds at once, so the people around you change between sessions ・Avoid recent neighbors: confirm a chart and the next one keeps those pairs apart where it can ・Pin a seat, lock a seat, or give someone an area of the room ("near the front") ・Drag and drop to adjust anything by hand ・Mark seats as empty for pillars, aisles or tables with fewer chairs ・Presentation mode for a projector, with names revealed table by table or seat by seat ・Paste a list from a spreadsheet to add everyone at once ■ Built for lists of real people ・Everything stays on your device. Nothing is ever sent to a server ・Works completely offline — a hall with no signal is fine ・No advertising, anywhere. Never on a screen full of people's names ・JSON backup for moving to a new phone or tablet ■ Price Up to 20 participants, everything is free — PDF export and name card printing included, with no features held back. For 21 or more, there is a single in-app purchase. No subscription, no further charges, no ads. Buy it once and it stays bought. ■ Where people use it ・Mixers and networking events: spread companies and departments across round tables, run several rounds so everyone meets someone new, print the name cards from the same screen ・Workshops and training: build the breakout groups, then let the app seat each group ・Classrooms: eyesight (a seat near the front), pairs to keep apart, balance by tag, and avoiding last month's neighbor — all at once ・After-school clubs: group or spread year levels ・Committee and board meetings: a hollow square so everyone can see everyone If seating has been costing you an evening every time, give it a try.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SeatCraft at none against SnapSeat's shown. SeatCraft also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. SnapSeat sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and SeatCraft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SnapSeat ships an update every 2 weeks, SeatCraft every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SnapSeat | SeatCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SnapTool | 合同会社シクミル |
In-app purchases
SnapSeat
- SnapSeat Premium$1.991 Month
SeatCraft
- Full version (unlimited)$6.99









