Comparison

Wedding Seating Planner vs Headtable

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

Head to head
About

Wedding Seating Planner

Simplify wedding planning by creating guest lists and seating charts without spreadsheets. Track dietary needs, link plus-ones, and visualize table layouts. Easily share your final seating plan with vendors.

Highlights
  • Guest list management
  • Seating chart creation
  • Plus-one linking
  • Dietary requirement tracking
  • Multiple table layouts
  • PDF export
  • Cross-device compatibility
Features
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Everyone says the seating chart is the hardest part of wedding planning. It doesn't have to be. Wedding Seating Planner puts the guest list, the tables, and the room itself in one place — so you can stop wrestling spreadsheets and start making decisions. Add a guest in seconds, seat them with a tap, and watch the plan come together. YOUR GUEST LIST, PROPERLY ORGANISED • Add guests fast, with tags for family, friends, wedding party, and your own custom groups • Track RSVPs at a glance — accepted, declined, still waiting • Link plus-ones so couples are never split by accident • Record meal choices per guest DIETARY NEEDS YOUR CATERER WILL LOVE YOU FOR • Mark vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, halal, kosher and more with one tap • Log allergies — nuts, shellfish, dairy, sesame — so nothing gets missed • Add notes for the details that don't fit a label • All of it goes into the PDF you send your caterer TABLES THAT WORK LIKE REAL TABLES • Round, long (one- or two-sided), and rectangular layouts • Set seats per side, name your tables, duplicate one in a tap • See instantly which tables are full and which still need work SEE THE WHOLE ROOM BEFORE THE BIG DAY • Drag and drop tables on a floor plan of your venue • Set the room's walls, then place the dance floor, DJ booth, bar, and cake table • Rotate, zoom, and rearrange until the room feels right SHARE A PLAN PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY USE • Export a clean, beautiful PDF for your venue, planner, or caterer • Export a CSV spreadsheet when the caterer asks for "just the list" • Per-table lists include seats, meals, and dietary notes NEVER LOSE AN EVENING'S WORK • Private iCloud sync keeps your plan safe and current on every device • Start on your iPhone in a spare moment, fine-tune on your iPad in the evening • No accounts, no sign-ups, no data collected — your plan stays yours Plans will change. Someone cancels, a plus-one turns up, Aunt Sarah falls out with Uncle Pete. That's fine. Move a seat and get on with your day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://silent-family-c0a.notion.site/Wedding-Seating-Planner-Privacy-Policy-311497a7f6e98079bb28f8fd318a766c

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 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

Wedding Seating Planner4 screens
Headtable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Headtable at 17.0 against Wedding Seating Planner's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Wedding Seating Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and Headtable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wedding Seating Planner ships an update every 5 days, Headtable every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Wedding Seating Planner versus Headtable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWedding Seating PlannerHeadtable
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews34.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigitalKind LtdEvatech Innovations,TOO

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Wedding Seating Planner

Subscriptions1
  • Lily Pro Annual$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Access$7.99
  • Full Access$29.99
1 purchases

Headtable

One-time1
  • Headtable Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Wedding Seating Planner free?
Wedding Seating Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Headtable free?
Headtable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wedding Seating Planner or Headtable have ads?
Neither Wedding Seating Planner nor Headtable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wedding Seating Planner or Headtable?
Wedding Seating Planner ships an update every 5 days, and Headtable every 3 days. Most recently, Wedding Seating Planner was updated on November 11, 2026 and Headtable on November 6, 2026.

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