Is this seating chart maker really free?

Yes, completely. The seating chart maker runs in your browser with nothing to install and no account to create. Add tables, paste your guest list, and assign seats as many times as you like at no cost.

Do I need to sign up or download anything?

No. Open the page and start building. Your chart is saved automatically in your own browser, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off on the same device.

How does the seating chart generator save my work?

Everything is stored locally in your browser using localStorage, not on a server. That keeps it private and instant, but it also means the chart lives on the device you built it on - use the Print button to keep a copy or share it.

Can I make a wedding seating chart with round and long tables?

Yes. Add each table as round or long, set how many seats it has, and the maker draws round tables as circles and long tables as rectangles so the layout matches your venue floor plan.

How many guests and tables can I add?

There is no hard limit for planning purposes - add as many tables and guests as your event needs. The header keeps a running count of total, seated, and unseated guests so you always know what is left to do.

Can I print my seating chart?

Yes. The Print button lays out every table with its guest names in clean columns and hides the editing controls, so you get a tidy page for the venue, the caterer, or the welcome table.

Free seating chart maker

Free seating chart maker
that saves as you go.

Building a seating chart usually means a spreadsheet, a printout, and a lot of erasing. This free seating chart maker turns it into a few clicks. Add round or long tables, set each one’s capacity, and paste your whole guest list at once. Then click a guest and click a table to seat them - occupancy counts update live, over-full tables are blocked, and a running list shows exactly who still needs a place. Everything saves in your browser as you work, so you can close the tab and come back later. When the chart is ready, print a clean copy for the venue. It is free, needs no sign-up, and works for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, galas, and dinners alike.

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No tables yet

Add your first table above, then click a guest and click the table to seat them.

Seating 120 guests?

Eventi seats them automatically - keeping families together - and WhatsApps each guest their table number.

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How to make a seating chart.

Four steps, right on this page.

1. Add your tables

Name each table, set its seat count, and choose round or long. They appear as cards you can fill.

2. Paste your guest list

Drop in names one per line. Everyone lands in the unseated panel with a live count.

3. Seat everyone

Click a guest, click a table. Full tables refuse politely and occupancy updates as you go.

4. Print or upgrade

Print a clean chart for the venue - or let Eventi text each guest their table number.

How to plan a wedding seating chart

Start after the RSVPs are in, not before. Seating a maybe is wasted work, because roughly one in ten confirmations shift in the final weeks. Once you know who is coming, group guests the way they already cluster - close family, each side’s friend circles, colleagues, plus-ones next to the person who invited them. Give every table a name or number and a realistic capacity, then place the anchor guests first (parents, the wedding party, anyone with mobility or dietary needs near the exits or catering). Fill the rest around them, and keep an eye on the unseated count until it hits zero. Leave one flexible table for late confirmations and day-of surprises. With this maker you can try a version, print it, and rearrange in seconds - no eraser required.

Round vs long tables

Round tables seat 8 to 10 and let everyone see each other, which is why they are the default for weddings - conversation flows and no one is stuck at a corner. Long banquet tables seat more people in the same floor space and suit tighter venues, head tables, and a more communal, family-style feel, but guests mostly talk to their immediate neighbours. Most events mix the two: rounds for the main floor, a long head table up front. In this seating chart maker you tag each table as round or long when you add it, and the card is drawn to match - circles for rounds, rectangles for long tables - so your plan mirrors the real room. Set capacity per table so an eight-top and a sixteen-seat banquet table each fill to the right number.

When to use auto-seating instead

A browser tool is perfect up to a point. Once you are past roughly 80 to 100 guests, or your list keeps changing as replies trickle in, doing it by hand gets slow and error-prone - and a printed chart taped to an easel means a queue at the door. That is when auto-seating earns its keep. The full Eventi product seats your confirmed list automatically while keeping families and groups together, updates the moment someone cancels, and WhatsApps each guest their table number so they walk straight to their seat. Use this free maker to sketch and print small charts; switch to Eventi when the guest count and the moving parts outgrow a single browser tab.

Great chart.
Now what?

A printed seating chart still leaves a crowd squinting at a board by the entrance. Eventi closes the last gap: it seats the whole list for you and sends every guest their table number before they arrive.

Auto-seat the whole list

Eventi arranges confirmed guests into your tables automatically and keeps families and groups together.

Table numbers over WhatsApp

Each guest gets a personal message with their exact table on the day - no printed board, no queue at the door.

Built on live RSVPs

Cancellations free the seat and reflow the chart, so what you send always matches who is actually coming.

Seating chart maker questions, answered.

Everything you need to know about the free tool.

Keep planning

See how the RSVP-connected seating chart works once your replies are in, or design the invite itself with the free invitation maker.