Tablee vs Headtable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Headtable
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Design your floor plan to scale, collect RSVPs online and seat every guest ā 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 ā offline, with no account. THE FLOOR PLAN ⢠Enter your room's size and plan to scale ā 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 ā your partner, a parent, your planner ā 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 ā never phone numbers or emails ā 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Headtable at every 3 days against Tablee's every 3 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Tablee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $79.99 per year and Headtable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tablee ships an update every 3 weeks, Headtable every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Tablee | Headtable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teddy Verneuil | Evatech Innovations,TOO |
In-app purchases
Tablee
- Tablee Pro (yearly)$79.991 Year
- Event unlock$8.99
Headtable
- Headtable Pro$12.99






