Brunchie vs seating chart apps

If all you need is a QR-coded sign at the venue door that lets a guest type their name and see their table, eSeatingChart does that one job cleanly.¹ If you'd rather have your seating chart live inside the same link your guests already RSVP'd in — reading from the same guest list, plus-ones, and dietary polls, with drag-and-drop, AI auto-assign, floor-plan import from any platform or vendor, PDF export, and day-of QR check-in already attached — Brunchie runs the whole thing.

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Why couples try a seating-chart app — and where it leaves them

The classic path: you've already paid for a planning tool (or you're holding everything in spreadsheets, a group chat, and an inbox). Two weeks before the wedding it hits you that the table assignments are real now, and the planning tool you bought either doesn't do seating well or doesn't do it at all. So you sign up for a standalone seating-chart app — eSeatingChart for the find-my-seat moment, AllSeated/Prismm if a venue or planner is involved in 3D floor planning — and re-enter your guest list manually into the new tool.¹²

What you end up with on the day:

• Two different sources of truth for the guest list (the one you RSVP'd against, and the one in the seating app).
• No connection between plus-ones, dietary polls, and the table you assigned (so the chart doesn't know that Casey's friend +1 needs a vegetarian seat).
• No connection between the seating chart and day-of check-in — guests scan a QR on a welcome sign to find their table, then if your venue is doing check-in you're back to a separate clipboard or another app.
• An extra ~$50 SKU bolted on at the very end.¹

eSeatingChart owns the find-my-seat moment very well — its UX is genuinely better than a printed alphabetical board, the search-by-name is fast, and last-minute changes ripple to the guest-facing view without reprinting a poster. But it is, by design, only that moment — no RSVPs, no polls, no plus-ones, no check-in, no day-of comms.¹

Why couples choose Brunchie

1. Your seating is a tab in the same hangout as everything else. Brunchie's seating chart reads directly from your RSVPs + plus-ones + dietary polls. Build the chart with drag-and-drop or hit AI auto-assign and it knows who's a +1, who's vegetarian, and who shouldn't sit next to whom. See the seating-chart guide.
2. The same link your guests RSVP'd in is where they find their table on the day. No QR sign with a separate URL, no "scan this to see your seat" workflow that fails if the venue has bad Wi-Fi — guests open the link they already have and tap My table.
3. Import your floor plan from any platform or vendor. Already designed a chart in AllSeated, Prismm, or Canva? Got a PDF from your venue coordinator or a spreadsheet from your planner? Drop it in — Brunchie's seating chart accepts PDF, image, and spreadsheet imports, so it doesn't matter which tool the layout was built in. Need a printed copy for the welcome table or the venue coordinator? Export back to PDF. You don't lose the work you've already done.
4. Day-of check-in is wired to the same chart. Brunchie's QR self check-in marks attendees against the same seating chart, so on the day you can see who's seated, who's still arriving, and the chart reflects it live. See day-of check-in.
5. Free forever, no $50 SKU at the end. Brunchie is free for the host and free for every guest, with no premium tier. The whole event runs in one room, in one link. See Free forever.