one payment · unlimited plans
Seat 140 people in an evening. Print it. Done.
Drag your guest list onto tables until nobody is sitting next to the wrong person, then print a chart the venue can read and cards that spell everyone's name right. $24.95 once — no subscription required.
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Paste the list, don't type it
One name per line, or a CSV with your own columns. Households move as one unit, so “Smith family (4)” lands on a table together instead of four separate drags.
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Drag people onto tables
Rounds, long tables, a head table, a sweetheart table — plus the dance floor, the bar and the cake, so the printed layout reads like the room. Drop one guest on another to swap them.
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Auto-seat, then read what it broke
Tell it Uncle Ray must not sit with Aunt June. It seats everyone in a couple of seconds — and names every rule it had to break, with the people in it, before you apply anything.
Drag someone. Press Auto-seat.
80 real guests, one real feud ↓
Best on a laptop — the planner is desk-first on purpose.
what it doesn't do
Auto-seat is a strong start, not a finished plan
It only knows what you tell it. When your rules can't all be met it does not quietly drop one — it names every break and the people in it, before you apply anything, and keeps them on screen afterwards. Expect to fix two or three things by hand. That is the honest version of this feature.
One device, and no link to send
Your plan lives on the machine you build it on. It doesn't sync to your other laptop by itself, and there is no shareable URL in this version — a link would mean us holding your guests' names where anyone with the address could read them. Move a plan with the JSON backup; send your caterer the PDF. Both are free and need no account.
Plan on a laptop
Your phone can search the list and show the finished chart, but the floor plan is desktop-only. There is no macOS app, no Windows app and no native mobile app — TablePlan is a web app you can install as a PWA, and that is everything the purchase includes.
Not an RSVP tool, not a wedding suite
No invitations, no emailing guests, no budget, no checklists, no vendor management, and no importing another planner's files. One job, finished properly.
no subscription required
You use a seating planner for about three months and then never again. Nobody should be renting you one — so $24.95 oncebuys the app, and that is the end of it. It's part of LifeTime Apps.
- · Unlimited plans — your wedding, then your sister's
- · Printable chart, table cards, place cards, floor plan
- · Caterer's meal counts and dietary list
- · Every sheet made on your machine, never ours
- · Every future update, no renewal, no per-event fee
Building the plan is free. The printed sheets are the paid part — and your guest list and full backup export without a licence, always.
Questions worth asking
- What happens when my rules are impossible?
- It tells you, by name, before it applies anything: “Ray Ellis is at Table 6 with June Ellis — they must not sit together.” It does not quietly drop the rule it likes least, and those breaks stay in the plan-health readout afterwards so they can't be dismissed and forgotten. Avoiding exactly that is the thing you're buying.
- Can I send my caterer a link?
- Not in this version — send them the PDF instead. A link would mean us holding your guests' names in a row anyone with the URL could read, and we're not switching that on until it has had a proper security review. What you can do today is print or export every sheet they actually want: the chart, the table cards, the place cards, the floor plan and the meal counts, all generated on your own machine.
- Can my partner and I both work on it?
- Not at the same time, and not on two different laptops in this version — the plan lives on the device you build it on. There is no account and no copy on a server, so nothing syncs by itself. Download the JSON backup and restore it on the other machine to hand the plan over. Syncing your own devices is the next thing we want to build, and it will be included.
- Does it know my venue?
- No. The floor is a plan, not a scale drawing: it doesn't know your room's dimensions, its pillars or its fire exits, and it never shows a measurement you didn't type. What it produces is something the venue and the caterer can read and act on.
- Does it work on my phone?
- Reading does — search a guest, check where they're sitting, look at the finished chart. Editing doesn't: dragging tables around a 390px screen is a bad experience and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Plan on a laptop, check on your phone.
- Is it really one payment?
- Yes. $24.95 buys the app: unlimited plans, no renewal, no rental, no recurring anything. Plan your wedding, then your sister's. You use a seating planner for about three months and then never again — which is precisely why nobody sane would rent you one.
- What's free and what isn't?
- Building the plan is free — the whole guest list, the whole floor, the rules, auto-seat, all of it. You pay when you want the artefacts: the printed chart, the table cards, the place cards, the floor plan and the caterer's list. And your own data always comes back out either way — the guest CSV and the JSON backup work without a licence, with no account and no connection.
the honest small print
Your plan lives in a database on your own device and we never see your guest list. In this version nothing about it is stored on a server at all — there is no sync and no share link, so there is no second copy anywhere. Once we start charging, TablePlan confirms your licence and then runs offline for 14 days between checks; after that it asks you to reconnect once. Nothing is ever deleted when that happens, and the guest CSV and JSON backup need no account, no connection and no licence.