Privacy for guest lists
Guest names never leave your device. That matters: a wedding list often contains personal context (plus-ones, family abbreviations) you don't want on a third-party server.
When the seating chart breaks down at the last minute, paste your guest list and let the generator make even tables.
The free version does the job. The optional template pack just makes brackets look beautiful for events, classrooms and clubs.
Free forever for basic use · No signup required
Less for the formal seating chart and more for last-minute reshuffles, post-ceremony cocktail tables, and corporate gala assignments where families and plus-ones need to land somewhere quickly.
Guest names never leave your device. That matters: a wedding list often contains personal context (plus-ones, family abbreviations) you don't want on a third-party server.
If the reception has games (lawn bowls, charades), pipe the table list into the bracket maker for a friendly tournament between tables.
There's a temptation to think a sport-specific or classroom-specific tool would be 'better' than a generic generator. In practice the opposite is true: the rules of fair team-splitting are the same whether you're dividing a Year 7 PE class or a Sunday-league football squad. What changes between audiences is the framing — the language used in the guide, the typical group size, the kinds of ratings people record. The underlying maths (Fisher–Yates shuffle, snake-draft balancing) is identical. That's why this site uses one generator across many audience-specific pages: the same engine, with copy and presets tuned to the context.
If you'll regenerate teams from the same roster repeatedly — every Tuesday training, every Friday game night — paste the names once, click 'Copy as text', and save the result in a note app or a pinned message. Next session, paste it back. There's no account system to maintain and nothing to forget; the names live wherever you keep your other notes. For coaches managing multiple squads, prefix each name with a one-letter squad tag (e.g. 'A Alex', 'B Sam') and use the filter step to keep only the relevant tag before generating.
Manually group them in the input — names within a small block can be edited after generation by dragging.
Yes. The generator doesn't ask for personal information, doesn't display ads inside the tool itself, and runs entirely client-side. Many teachers use it weekly. See the trust and safety page for the full position on under-16 use.
Yes — the 'Export CSV' button gives you a two-column file (team, name) that opens cleanly in Excel, Google Sheets, and Numbers. From there you can pivot, filter, or merge with attendance records.
Add their name to the textarea and regenerate. If you want to preserve the existing teams and just slot the latecomer in, use the 'Add to smallest team' shortcut instead of regenerating — it places them on whichever team currently has the fewest members.
Six is the natural size for round-table discussions and many board games — paste your names and we'll shuffle.
OpenMix departments fairly so every breakout group has a mix of design, engineering, sales, and ops — without picking favourites.
OpenPasting a roster of 30–100 people and splitting it into ten balanced squads is a job for a generator, not a clipboard.
OpenTwelve teams is the sweet spot for tournaments that want short matches and many parallel games — paste your list and we will handle the rotation.
OpenFree forever for basic use. No signup required. The free version really does do the job.
Want prettier prints? See the optional template pack