Comparison

Seatly vs Tablee

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

Head to head
About

Seatly

Features
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Assign every guest to the right table in seconds — automatically. Seatly is the smart seating planner for weddings, parties, and events. Set your rules once and let the app build a complete seating chart that respects every guest's needs: dietary restrictions, accessibility, and who should sit together. No more spreadsheets, sticky notes, or last-minute reshuffling. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - Automatic seating in one tap — the engine seats all your guests while honoring every restriction you set. - Built for real guests — flag vegan, vegetarian, celiac, lactose-intolerant and reduced-mobility guests, plus child seats, so no need is ever missed. - Group with tags — keep family, friends, and coworkers together with simple guest tags. - Full table control — create round or rectangular tables, set capacity, and see who's seated at a glance. - Multiple events & venues — manage every celebration and reception venue from one place. - Track progress — always know how many guests are assigned vs. still pending. PERFECT FOR Weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, birthdays, anniversaries, corporate galas, banquets, baby showers — any event where seats matter. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create your event and choose your venue. 2. Add tables and set their capacity. 3. Add guests with tags, notes, and dietary or accessibility needs. 4. Tap once — every guest is seated automatically, restrictions respected. 5. Review, fine-tune, and share your final plan. Whether you're planning your own big day or you're a professional event planner managing hundreds of guests, Seatly turns hours of seating headaches into minutes. Download Seatly and get everyone in the right seat — effortlessly.

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Tablee

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The seating plan, minus the three hours of sticky notes. You enter your guests and your rules: who belongs together, who should stay apart. Tablee builds the floor plan and leaves you the final say on every seat. WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGES • You describe, the app seats. "These two together", "definitely not those two", "children at one table". Tablee looks for the arrangement that honours the most rules. • It tells you what it gave up. When two rules contradict each other, it doesn't choose in silence: it shows the trade-off and lets you decide. • A last-minute cancellation breaks nothing. Remove a guest, run it again: the plan recalculates while moving as few people as possible. Anything you placed by hand stays put. • You keep control. Drag someone with a finger, pin them, run it again. What you fixed is never undone. • Your guest list arrives in one go. Paste a spreadsheet, import an Excel, CSV or PDF file, pick from your contacts, or type names with Quick add: "Emma & Louis Martin" makes a household. Households, groups, meals, allergens and replies all come through, and each group can be gathered or spread out, as you choose. • A room to your measurements. Dimensions to the tenth of a metre, seven table shapes, stage, dance floor, bar, buffet, entrances, pillars. And several rooms: drinks in the garden, dinner in the barn. ON YOUR IPHONE, AND ON YOUR COMPUTER IF YOU LIKE Everything works without an account on iPhone and iPad, even offline. An optional, free Tablee account brings your plans to your computer, in the web app at app.tablee-app.com, and back again. Sign in with Apple, or with a six-digit code sent by email. On your computer, a QR code signs the app in with one scan of your camera. THE PLANS Free: one event, up to 5 tables The full editor and the full seating engine: this is not a trial. Documents carry a "Made with Tablee" line. This event: one-time payment Up to 200 tables on the event of your choice, and every document without a watermark. No subscription, no renewal. This is the wedding plan. You pay once, for your day. Tablee Pro: yearly subscription Unlimited events and tables, watermark-free documents everywhere. Built for caterers, venues and wedding planners running one event after another. With an account, your purchases count on iPhone, iPad and computer. You pay when you create the event, right after picking your plan. FOUR DOCUMENTS READY TO PRINT • Service sheet: covers, meals and allergens counted table by table • A3 floor plan to scale, then one page per table • Alphabetical list, to find someone in three seconds • A2 entrance poster, "Find your table" Plus a backup file, to open on another device or on your computer. YOUR DATA Without an account, everything stays on your device: the plan is computed there, even offline. If you use iCloud, your events sync between your own devices, in your private space and encrypted. With an account, your account's events are stored on Tablee's servers so they can follow you to your computer. Your guests' allergens and reduced mobility only go there with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. You can delete your account from the app. No ads, no trackers. Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tablee-app.com/confidentialite Tablee Pro is a yearly subscription; its price depends on your country and is shown before you buy. It renews automatically at the end of each period unless cancelled at least 24 hours beforehand. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings.

Screenshots

Seatly4 screens
Tablee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seatly at none against Tablee's 2. Seatly also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Tablee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $79.99 per year. Seatly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Seatly versus Tablee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeatlyTablee
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcos CeresoliTeddy Verneuil

In-app purchases

None

Seatly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tablee

Subscriptions1
  • Tablee Pro (yearly)$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Event unlock$8.99

Questions

Is Seatly free?
Seatly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tablee free?
Tablee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Seatly or Tablee have ads?
Neither Seatly nor Tablee shows ads.

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