Kindly Seated vs SeatSprig
SeatSprig is a $29 seating chart maker where you drag guests onto tables in the browser, then download the print kit. Kindly Seated is a $99 service where you upload the table plan you already made and we typeset the six matching files, after checking the list. If you still need to seat people, SeatSprig is the better fit. If your plan is finished in a spreadsheet, Kindly Seated saves the re-seating step.
What is the difference between SeatSprig and Kindly Seated?
Who does the seating and who does the typesetting. In SeatSprig you build a floor plan, drag each guest onto a seat (or run its auto-seat rules), pick one of four designs and download the PDFs. In Kindly Seated there is no floor plan: you upload one row per guest with a table name, we flag anything that would go wrong in print, and the chart, place cards, table numbers, QR sign, guest page and backup list come out matched in one of six designs.
Both are one-time payments for one event, both make vector PDFs for print shops, and both give guests a QR find-your-seat page. Neither sells printing yet.
How do they compare side by side?
On a phone, scroll the table sideways to see both columns.
| Kindly Seated | SeatSprig | |
|---|---|---|
| What you start with | Your finished guest list with tables: CSV, Excel or pasted from a spreadsheet | A pasted guest list, then you seat each guest on a floor plan, or let auto-seat do it with keep-together and keep-apart rules |
| Who decides the seating | You, before you arrive. We never assign or move a guest | You in the editor, or SeatSprig's auto-seat |
| Floor plan | No | Yes: round, rectangular and head tables, drag to swap seats |
| Checks before printing | Missing tables, possible duplicate names and names too long for the layout are flagged for you to decide. Nothing is guessed or merged | Column detection on paste and "John & Jane Smith" split into two guests. No pre-print checks are described on its site |
| Printed seating chart sizes | 16 × 20, 18 × 24, 24 × 36 in, A2, A1; alphabetical or by table | 16 × 20, 18 × 24, 24 × 36, 11 × 17 in, A1, A2, A3; by table or A–Z |
| Matching pieces | Chart, tent place cards (4 per sheet), table numbers, QR sign, backup list, guest page | Chart, A–Z finder, escort cards (10 per sheet), tent place cards (4 per sheet), table numbers (4 × 6 or 5 × 7), QR sign |
| Designs | Six | Four (Classic Ivory, Modern Minimal, Sage Garden, Terracotta Arch) |
| Where your list lives | On our server behind a private link, deleted 30 days after the event or when you ask. Works from any device | In your own browser, no account. A one-click backup file; clearing browser data or switching devices means restoring from that file |
| Late changes | Edit on the dashboard; all six files and the guest page regenerate, free, until the event | Edit in the browser and download again; the QR page updates and its code stays the same |
| Free option | Full preview with your real names, watermarked and partly blurred, no download | Unlimited guests and tables; downloads are watermarked and low resolution |
| Published price | $99 once, $149 for 251–500 guests | $29 once per wedding, plus sales tax where required |
| Refunds | Full refund if a file we got wrong isn't fixed within 2 business days; no change-of-mind refunds because files are instant | 14-day money-back guarantee |
| Checkout | Stripe | Paddle, as merchant of record |
SeatSprig details are from seatsprig.com as published on 9 November 2026; they may change. We have no affiliation with SeatSprig.
When is SeatSprig the better choice?
- You haven't seated anyone yet. Its floor plan and auto-seat rules do the planning step. We don't; you'd need to plan somewhere else first.
- You want to try the whole thing before paying. SeatSprig's free tier lets you build and download watermarked files. Ours shows the preview but doesn't release a download.
- Budget is the deciding factor. $29 against $99. If a few hours of dragging and checking is a fair trade for the $70 difference, SeatSprig is the sensible pick.
- You need escort cards or an 11 × 17 chart. We don't make escort cards or print a Tabloid-size chart.
When is Kindly Seated the better choice?
- The plan is already in a spreadsheet. Re-seating 150 guests by dragging is the evening you were trying to avoid. Upload the sheet and the files come back typeset.
- You're about to pay a print shop. A missing table or a duplicated cousin is cheap to fix before printing and expensive after. We flag both before you pay us, and the print files come with crop marks, a calibration square and a printing guide.
- More than one person needs to see it. Your partner on their phone, your mother on hers, the planner at the venue: a private link works anywhere, with nothing to restore from a backup file.
- Names that need care. Accents, Irish and Vietnamese names, long double-barrelled surnames: we size them to fit and print exactly what you typed.
How this guide was written
Written and published by Kindly Seated, a one-person studio in Utah. The measurements and layout advice come from our own typesetting software, run on fictional guest lists. Drafting was AI-assisted; Alex reviewed and edited every sentence before it went live, and reviews it again whenever the "Updated" date changes. Nothing here is sponsored.
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