Comparison

Marriage 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

Marriage

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MarriageMatters is a faith-centered relationship app for married couples who want to grow closer with intention, grace, and privacy. This is not a social network, public challenge app, or noisy self-help feed. It is a private space for husband and wife to slow down, reconnect, reflect, and invest in their marriage one day at a time. WIFE AND HUSBAND VIEWS Choose a Wife or Husband view. Your devotional focus, daily verse, date ideas and love challenges follow the view you pick. DEVOTIONALS AND DAILY VERSE Read the devotional entries and a short focus for your view, and mark each one read or unread. Home shows a Scripture verse for the day. JOURNAL Write entries with an optional title and your name, edit them later, and delete them when you wish. Capture your thoughts and prayers. DATE NIGHT IDEAS Each day shows up to three built-in date ideas. Add the ones you like to your list, ignore the rest, add your own, and tick off each date as you do it. LOVE CHALLENGES Each day offers up to three built-in challenges for your view. Add them to your plan, skip one for today, and mark them done. PRIVATE ON YOUR DEVICE Your journal, date list and challenge plan stay on your device. No ads. No public profiles. No social feed. WORKS OFFLINE Once your subscription is active, MarriageMatters works offline. App Store services are used for purchase, restore and subscription management. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED MarriageMatters is subscription-only. Monthly and Yearly auto-renewable subscriptions give the same full access and differ only in billing period. Prices are shown in the app by Apple and may vary by region. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled through your Apple Account. Restore Purchase is available on the subscription screen. Subscription verification App Store subscriptions may be securely verified with Apple to confirm active subscription access and improve subscription recovery after reinstalling the app. This verification is used only for subscription entitlement. Your journal, date list and challenge plan remain stored on your device. Terms of Use: https://sunnyengineer.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://sunnyengineer.com/sunengineering_privacy_policy.html

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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 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.

Screenshots

Marriage4 screens
Headtable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Headtable at every 3 days against Marriage's monthly. Marriage's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Marriage sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Headtable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marriage ships an update monthly, Headtable every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Marriage versus Headtable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarriageHeadtable
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB16 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHenk de SwardtEvatech Innovations,TOO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Marriage

Subscriptions2
  • MarriageMatters monthly all access$0.991 Month
  • MarriageMatters annual all access$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Headtable

One-time1
  • Headtable Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Marriage free?
Marriage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Headtable free?
Headtable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Marriage or Headtable have ads?
Neither Marriage nor Headtable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marriage or Headtable?
Marriage ships an update monthly, and Headtable every 3 days. Most recently, Marriage was updated on November 5, 2026 and Headtable on November 6, 2026.

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