Comparison

Wedding Seating Chart vs Seated

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

Head to head
About

Wedding Seating Chart

Features
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Compare seating versions before the final chart reaches your venue. Wedding Seating Chart: Compare turns your guest list and table setup into a clear, versioned reception plan. Build the first arrangement, duplicate it when RSVPs or family plans change, and see exactly who moved between versions. PLAN THE TABLES Add round, rectangular or head tables, set capacity, and arrange them to match the reception. Assign guests by tap or drag, keep unseated names visible, and find any guest in seconds. CHECK THE DETAILS Record parties, RSVP status, meals, accessibility notes, together rules and apart rules. This app flags capacity and guest-rule conflicts using only the information you enter. It never makes etiquette, accessibility or venue-compliance decisions for you. COMPARE REVISIONS Duplicate a sent baseline before making changes. Compare two named versions to see moved, added and removed guests, changed tables, new findings and resolved findings. Last-minute edits stay explainable instead of disappearing into a spreadsheet. HAND OFF A CLEAR PACKET Export a table diagram, per-table lists, an alphabetical guest lookup, meal and accessibility notes, findings, a version-change page and printable place cards. Everything is designed for a practical handoff to a planner, venue or caterer. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account is required. Guest and event data stay in local app storage unless you choose to export or share a file. There are no ads, invitations, public RSVP pages or remote AI. Free includes one event, 40 guests, five tables, two seating versions and a packet with a small footer. Pro unlocks unlimited events, guests, tables and versions, clean vendor packets, CSV exports, templates and advanced revision output. Some features require an in-app purchase. There is no free trial. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kanac.github.io/syanac-legal/

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Seated

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Seating is the worst job in planning any event, and every app built for it makes you do the work yourself. They hand you a floor plan and a hundred little name circles to drag around. Seated does the opposite. You tell it who must sit together and who must not, and it produces the plan. A wedding, a gala, a company dinner, a conference, a fundraiser, a birthday โ€” if people have to sit somewhere, and it matters where, this is for that. THREE TABS: PLAN, HALL, GUESTS Add tables on Plan. Arrange the room in Hall โ€” tap a table and put a name on each chair. Guests shows the same chairs, in seat order. A guest without a chair is not on the list. TWO KINDS OF RULE, AND NO MORE Must sit together. Must not share a table. That is the whole vocabulary, because a seating plan you cannot explain is one you cannot defend to the guest who asks why they are at table nine. A rule between two people applies to everyone they are grouped with, so keeping one half of a couple away from someone keeps the other half away too. IT WILL NOT QUIETLY BREAK A RULE This is the part that matters on the day. If Seated cannot honour every rule, it says which rule was the problem and names the people involved, and it leaves them unseated rather than putting them somewhere you forbade. It never fudges the arrangement to make the numbers work. It tells you what is wrong in plain words โ€” that you are six seats short, that a family of nine will not fit on a table of eight, that two people are set both to sit together and to sit apart. ADD A GUEST WITHOUT LOSING YOUR PLAN A late RSVP does not reshuffle the other hundred and nineteen. Seated leaves everyone exactly where they were and finds room for the new arrival. You have already told those people where they are sitting. FOUR THINGS TO PRINT Table plan, for the venue and the caterer โ€” every table with its guests and headcount. Find your table, for the board by the door โ€” one alphabetical sheet, sorted by last name. Numbers โ€” one page of headcounts per table for final numbers. Notes โ€” dietary and allergy notes, grouped by table. All four come from the same plan, so they cannot disagree with each other. Reprint them as often as you like; the list will change again before the day. YOUR GUEST LIST STAYS ON YOUR PHONE A guest list is a map of a family. Who is divorced, who is not speaking, who cannot be near the bar. Every name, rule and table is kept on this device and is never uploaded. Signing in creates an account so the app knows whose list is whose โ€” the list itself never leaves the phone, and there is no tracking and no analytics. PRICING Building the list, setting the tables, writing the rules and reading the finished plan are free, and stay free. The four printed documents are a single payment of $29.99 โ€” no subscription, nothing to renew, nothing to cancel. The event happens once.

Screenshots

Wedding Seating Chart4 screens
Seated4 screens

Verdict

The call

Wedding Seating Chart and Seated are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Wedding Seating Chart sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Seated sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Wedding Seating Chart versus Seated: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWedding Seating ChartSeated
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony ChuiArtem Kurtiak

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Wedding Seating Chart

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Seating Pro$19.991 Month
  • Yearly Seating Pro$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Seating Pro$99.99
1 purchases

Seated

One-time1
  • Unlock the documents$29.99

Questions

Is Wedding Seating Chart free?
Wedding Seating Chart is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Seated free?
Seated is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wedding Seating Chart or Seated have ads?
Neither Wedding Seating Chart nor Seated shows ads.

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