Comparison

Seatsy vs TadaPlan

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

Head to head
About

Seatsy

Design event seating charts with an unlimited canvas and powerful guest management tools. Import guest lists, drag-and-drop assignments, and create precise floor plans. Syncs across devices and exports layouts as images.

Highlights
  • Unlimited canvas for any event size
  • Drag-and-drop table and guest placement
  • CSV/XLSX guest list import
  • Spreadsheet-style bulk guest editing
  • Precise floor planner with templates
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Export layouts as PNG images
Features
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From intimate dinners to galas and conferences with hundreds of guests, Seatsy brings your guest list and your floor plan together. Import guests from a spreadsheet, drag them onto seats, lay out the room with tables, a dance floor and a stage, then print place cards, escort cards and seating charts. No account needed. Seatsy works offline and saves automatically, and iCloud sync keeps your events up to date on iPhone, iPad and Mac. SEATING • Drag guests onto seats, or tap an empty seat and pick a guest • Drag one seated guest onto another to swap their seats • Lock a guest's seat or reserve an empty one • See first names or initials right on the seats • Fill Open Seats in one tap: guests with the same tags sit together • Shuffle guests while locked seats stay put • Spread VIPs evenly across tables • Clear all seats at once, while locked seats stay in place FLOOR PLAN • Set the room size in meters or feet • Mark the dance floor, stage, DJ, bar, buffet, entrance or your own areas, in real sizes • Drag tables into place with snap-to-grid and alignment guides • Zoom, rotate and fine-tune every table • Round, rectangular, rectangular with end seats, and banquet tables • Add up to 10 matching tables at once, or start from ready-made layouts • Jump from any table to its place on the floor plan • Save the floor plan as an image GUESTS • Add notes, VIP status, built-in tags and your own tags • Search by name, note, tag or table, and sort A–Z or Z–A • Edit many guests at once in a spreadsheet-style table • Manage all your tags in one place • Built-in help guide IMPORT, EXPORT & PRINT • Import CSV, TSV or XLSX files with smart column matching that remembers your choices • Paste a guest list straight from the clipboard • Assign tables during import and create missing tables automatically • Export your guest list with table assignments as CSV • Print or save as PDF: seating chart poster, table lists, place cards and escort cards, on Letter or A4 EVENTS & SYNC • Create, duplicate and rename events • See tables, seats, seated guests and open seats at a glance • On iPad and Mac, tables appear in two columns • Works offline, and syncs through iCloud when it's available Perfect for weddings, receptions, banquets, conferences, corporate dinners, galas, parties, classrooms and any event that needs organized seating. FREE AND PREMIUM The free plan includes one event with up to 30 guests and any number of tables, with every seating and floor plan tool. Premium adds unlimited events and guests, printing and PDF export, and floor plan images without a watermark. Premium is available as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. Terms of Use: https://pipsapps.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://pipsapps.com/privacy.html

About

TadaPlan

Features
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Describe your event in a few sentences. TadaPlan generates the complete plan: dated backward schedule, budget, registrations and a 3D seating chart. Magic up front, a real critical-path engine behind. FROM CLUB BARBECUE TO FESTIVAL Wedding, charity gala, tournament, general assembly, festival: describe the event, its date and its size — the AI proposes a plan of dozens of dated, dependency-aware tasks in about a minute. ASK TADAPLAN Ask a question about your event in plain language — "Am I on track?", "Add a tasting the day before" — and the AI answers, then acts directly on your plan. NEW: SEATING IN INTERACTIVE 3D Explore your room in interactive 3D: rotate the view, drag tables and guests, and let the solver seat everyone by your rules — "keep the Smiths together, Grandma away from the speakers". Impossible conflicts are flagged live. A REAL BACKWARD SCHEDULE, NOT A TO-DO LIST TadaPlan computes your event's critical path (CPM, calculated in code, never guessed): you instantly see which tasks drive the date, and the app flags risks in advance — "13 days short" — not the day after the disaster. EVENT DAY, MINUTE BY MINUTE The AI generates your run-of-show: every moment to the minute, cascading recalculation when a slot slips, locked anchors for the key highlights. YOUR WHOLE EVENT IN ONE APP • Plan: list, timeline, Gantt and calendar views • Budget & Finance: income/expenses, break-even, financial plan, market study and business plan generated by AI (paid plan) • Invoicing: professional PDF invoices, SEPA payment QR, compliant numbering, Peppol e-invoicing and PDF/Word/Excel exports • Registrations: multilingual public page, QR tickets, waitlist, company registrations with named guests, AI concierge that answers your guests • Event day: scan tickets at the door — live attendance counter, duplicate scans rejected • 3D seating: the solver seats your guests by your rules, and you explore the room in 3D • Team: invite, assign, discuss, validate 10 LANGUAGES English, Français, Nederlands, Deutsch, Español, Italiano, Português, Svenska, Dansk, Norsk — interface, public registration pages and automatic emails. Free to start (1 event, limited AI generations). Pro and Business plans for regular organizers. SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro: €49.99/month · Agency: €129.99/month · Event Pass: €49.99 (one-time purchase, no renewal). Payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy : https://tadaplan.eu/confidentialite

Screenshots

Seatsy4 screens
TadaPlan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TadaPlan at 13.0 against Seatsy's 18.6. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Seatsy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and TadaPlan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $44.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Seatsy versus TadaPlan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeatsyTadaPlan
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB45 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperAlona Nesterenkoiclics

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Seatsy

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Premium$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium$7.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Subscription$24.99
3 purchases

TadaPlan

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$44.991 Month
  • Agency$119.991 Month
One-time1
  • Event Pass$44.99

Questions

Is Seatsy free?
Seatsy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TadaPlan free?
TadaPlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Seatsy or TadaPlan have ads?
Neither Seatsy nor TadaPlan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seatsy or TadaPlan?
Seatsy ships an update weekly, and TadaPlan weekly. Most recently, Seatsy was updated on October 30, 2026 and TadaPlan on October 29, 2026.

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