Seatbee vs Headtable

Plan your perfect seating arrangement in minutes with AI. Seatbee helps couples, wedding planners, and event hosts create beautiful seating plans — from guest list to table assignments. GUEST MANAGEMENT Add guests one by one, paste a list, or import a CSV. Track RSVPs, dietary needs, meals, parties, and categories. VISUAL EDITOR Drag and drop tables and venue objects on an interactive canvas. Upload your venue floor plan, set up your room shape, and arrange everything visually. AI-POWERED SEATING Let AI seat your guests automatically based on your rules. Keep groups together, separate feuding relatives, assign VIPs to the best tables. SEATING RULES Create parties, seat-together groups, keep-apart rules, and table assignments. The AI engine uses these to build the perfect arrangement. SHARE & EXPORT Export seating charts and place cards as PDF. Generate a guest QR code so attendees can find their table. Invite collaborators to plan together. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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 table by table, 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, 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 (Pro) SEATING • Switch between the floor plan and a grid of every table, each chair where it really is • Drag a guest onto any seat, or tap them to pick a table • Color-code guests by group, with a ring for whose side they're on, in colors you choose • Search any guest or table, and tap anyone to edit their group, meal, dietary needs 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, shuffle a dinner party, undo anything, and keep unseated guests in a tray • No list yet? Type the names you know and each takes a seat GUEST LIST • Groups you can fold away (the Smiths +2), sides, 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, 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, meal, allergies and a plus-one • Several venues, each with a time and a map, in your chosen design, with Add to Calendar • 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 • Quiet reminders 8, 4 and 2 weeks out 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 • Your own look (Pro): paper, accent color, font and art on every chart, card and invitation • 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.