Comparison

Seatful vs Headtable

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

Head to head
About

Seatful

Effortlessly plan wedding and event seating arrangements with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Import guest lists, manage RSVPs with a shareable link, and generate professional printouts. Offers a free tier with an optional one-time purchase for full event access.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop seating arrangement
  • Guest list import from spreadsheet
  • Shareable RSVP link
  • Automatic meal count tracking
  • Printable seating charts and guest lists
  • Guest conflict flagging
Features
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Seatful is the calm way to plan your wedding or event seating, right from your iPhone. - Drag guests to seats. Move and rotate tables, and see your whole room at a glance. - Import your guest list from a spreadsheet. Seatful catches duplicates before they land. - Share one RSVP link. Guests reply from any browser, with no app and no account. A decline frees the seat, an accepted plus-one joins your list, and meal counts add up automatically. - Print a clean, watermark-free plan for your venue and caterer, plus an alphabetical name-to-table list and a QR "find your seat" page for the entrance. - Your event lives on your device and syncs across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. Add a free Seatful account to back it up and keep planning in your browser at seatful.app. You stay in control. Start free. A one-time Event Pass lets you seat every guest, see every RSVP and print without a watermark, with no subscription and no weekly fee. Planning events professionally? Seatful Pro adds unlimited events and clients, reusable venue templates, white-label exports with your business name and brand color, and client approval links. More ways Seatful helps: mark two guests who must never share a table and the chart flags any clash. Set up the whole room from your guest count in one tap. Seat the ends of banquet tables. Link your rehearsal dinner and brunch to the wedding, share a read-only chart link with your partner, print meal choices on place cards, and watch replies arrive on a Home Screen widget. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://seatful.app/privacy

About

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 from a list of tables, 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 from your guest count and table size, 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 or floor plan (Pro) SEATING • Switch between the floor plan and a list of tables with every guest's name • Drag a guest onto any seat, or tap them to pick a table by how full it is and where their group sits • Go to any table by name, search any guest, and tap anyone at a table to edit their group, meal, dietary needs, VIP status 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, mix up the seats at a dinner party, undo anything, and keep unseated guests in a tray • No list yet? Type the names you know and each guest takes a seat as you type GUEST LIST • Groups (the Smiths +2), 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, even on another Apple Account, 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, their meal, allergies, and a plus-one if you allow it • 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, from one phone or several • Quiet reminders 8, 4 and 2 weeks out, so late replies and plus-ones still get a seat 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 • 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

Seatful4 screens
Headtable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Headtable at every 3 days against Seatful's every 6 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Seatful sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 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

Seatful ships an update every 6 days, Headtable every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Seatful versus Headtable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeatfulHeadtable
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHandler Labs LLCEvatech Innovations,TOO

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Seatful

Subscriptions2
  • Seatful Pro Monthly14 Days trial$39.991 Month
  • Seatful Pro Annual14 Days trial$290.001 Year
One-time1
  • Event Pass$14.99
1 purchases

Headtable

One-time1
  • Headtable Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Seatful free?
Seatful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Headtable free?
Headtable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Seatful or Headtable have ads?
Neither Seatful nor Headtable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seatful or Headtable?
Seatful ships an update every 6 days, and Headtable every 3 days. Most recently, Seatful was updated on October 29, 2026 and Headtable on October 24, 2026.

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