Live now in Plymouth, Michigan
How long is the wait?Instant.
Live restaurant wait times, reported by the people actually standing in them. Not estimates. Not reviews from last April.
The whole vocabulary
The map
One glance tells you where to go.
Every restaurant near you is a pin, colored by how long the wait is right now. Green, walk straight in. Red, pick somewhere else.
Every pin says how fresh it is.
A report from ten minutes ago on a busy Friday tells you plenty. One from yesterday doesn't, and the map says so instead of hiding it.
Tap one for the details.
Party size, whether parking was bad, and what the last few people actually waited. Then close the app and go eat.
Guessing vs. knowing
Same Friday night. Two hours apart.
Guessing
- You pick a place and hope.
- You drive over at 7pm on a Friday.
- The host says 40 minutes, maybe more.
- You put your name down and stand outside.
- Twenty minutes later you give up and start again somewhere else.
- You eat at 9:15.
Two hours. One mediocre dinner.
Knowing
- You open Seated before you leave the house.
- Three places nearby are green. One is red.
- You go to a green one.
- You sit down.
- You tap your wait on the way to the table.
- You eat at 7:20.
Twenty minutes. Same night, better.
How it works
It runs on people, not sensors.
Nobody is calling restaurants to ask. There's no camera counting heads. Seated is a loop, and joining it takes three seconds.
Somebody sits down
They tap the restaurant, tap how long they waited, and put their phone away.
You see it
The pin changes color. You're deciding where to eat and the guesswork is already done.
You report yours
Three taps once you're seated. It takes about as long as unlocking your phone.
The next person sees it
They get the same head start you did, then pass it on. The loop keeps going.
…and back to the top. The loop is the product.
Features
Built for the ten seconds before you leave.
Browse what's close
Sort by distance, by shortest wait, or by where people are reporting right now.
Report in three taps
Six options, plus parking and party size if you feel like it. Then you're done.
Alerts when a favorite clears
Save the places you care about and hear about it the moment one opens up.
Privacy
We don't know who you are, and we'd like to keep it that way.
A wait time is a small piece of information. Collecting an identity to go with it would be a strange trade, so we don't.
No account, ever
No email, no password, no profile. Open the app and it works. Reports show up without your name attached.
Visit detection is optional
If you turn it on, your phone notices you spent time at a restaurant and asks how the wait was. That matching happens on-device.
Location history stays on your phone
We never receive a log of where you've been. The only thing that leaves your device is a wait time for a restaurant.
No ads, nothing sold
There is no ad network in the app and no data broker on the other end. There's nothing to sell because we don't collect it.
Details in the privacy policy.
Plymouth, Michigan
One town on purpose.
A community app has to be dense to be useful. Fifty towns with three reports each is a map of nothing. One downtown with people reporting every night actually tells you where to eat.
So Seated starts on Main Street in Plymouth. If you're here early, your reports are the ones that make it work.
Coverage: downtown Plymouth and the restaurants around it. That's the honest answer.
More towns come when there are enough people in them to keep the map current. Not before.
FAQ
The short answers.
No. There is no sign-up at all. You can browse and report wait times the first second you open the app.
From people standing in the line. Someone taps how long they waited, and that's what you see. No restaurant portals, no cameras, no phone calls.
Yes. Free to download and free to use. No subscription and no ads.
One: Plymouth, Michigan. A wait-time map only works where enough people are using it, so we'd rather be useful in one town than empty in fifty.
It uses your location while the app is open to show what's nearby. Optional visit detection runs on-device, and your location history never leaves your phone.
As accurate as the last report. Each wait shows how long ago it came in, so you can judge for yourself. A ten-minute-old report on a busy Friday tells you plenty; a two-day-old one doesn't, and we don't pretend otherwise.
Know the wait
before you go.
Free on iPhone. Report your wait on the way to the table.
Free. No account. No sign-up.