What “free” means here (and what it usually means)
Most "free seating chart makers" are free the way a sample is free: sign up, build your whole chart, then discover the download button costs $12/month. We built this the other way around. The editor on this page is the product — tables, guest import, auto-seating, autosave, PNG and PDF export all work without an account, and they keep working after your event. The business model is a one-time Pro upgrade that removes the small "made with" line from exports and bumps resolution for poster printing. If you never need that, you never pay, and we're still glad you used it.
There is also no upload step to worry about. Your chart data — including every guest name — stays in your browser's local storage. For a wedding list or an employee roster, "we never see your data" is a privacy feature most signup-first tools can't offer.
Free, but not bare-bones
- Seven table types: rounds (2–16 seats), rectangles, banquets, one-sided head tables, sweetheart tables, straight rows, and curved arcs.
- Guest list tooling: paste from any spreadsheet, import CSV, add names one by one; auto-seat fills the room, and tap-to-move fixes the exceptions.
- Editor comforts: snap-to-grid, zoom and pan, undo/redo, per-table seat counts, event title block, and autosave.
- Print-ready output: the PDF is formatted for letter paper and scales cleanly to poster size at a print shop; the PNG drops into slides, emails, or a facebook event.
Start from a real layout
The fastest route to done is loading a template that matches your event and editing from there: a classic wedding reception, a classroom in rows or pods, a six-table gala, a concert band arc setup, or a cabaret-style corporate room. The full set lives in the template gallery — every one of them loads into this same free editor.