Snatchd vs SeatSwiper: Pricing, Cancellations and an Honest Review

Snatchd (also written Snatch’d) is an iPhone and iPad app, plus a Chrome extension, built to book New York’s hardest Resy tables the moment they are released. Its homepage description promises an “automated booking system” that secures tables “before bots can grab them,” and adds “we notify you when tables drop.” I run SeatSwiper, so weigh the product sections with that in mind. Every statement about Snatchd below comes from its own site and App Store listing, attributed as I go. SeatSwiper is not affiliated with Snatchd. Last verified 26 October 2026.

The short version

At a glance, with each line backed up below:

• Price. Per Snatchd’s pricing page, one booking token is $29 and five are $99, paid up front. SeatSwiper’s first booking is free, then a flat $5, charged only on a successful booking, with no subscription. A cancellation watch costs $1 to start, charged even if no table opens, not covered by the free first booking and not refunded, plus the same $5 if it wins. Ten tables: $198 at Snatchd’s best rate, $45 at SeatSwiper.
• Booking, not just alerts. Snatchd auto-books scheduled releases. For cancelled tables, its site describes push alerts you tap to book yourself. SeatSwiper books both.
• Set it and walk away. Snatchd’s FAQ asks you to open the app 15 seconds before a drop. SeatSwiper is set once.
• Platforms and cities. Snatchd covers Resy and a list of 31 New York restaurants. SeatSwiper covers Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, wherever they take reservations.
• Account safety. Snatchd’s terms warn that your Resy account “may be subject to suspension or termination by the respective platform.” SeatSwiper can’t get your account banned, for the reasons below.

What Snatchd says it is

Its summary file for AI search tools describes an “iOS app and Chrome extension that book NYC Resy tables the moment they release,” plus per-venue release analytics it calls the Data Lab and “Last-minute cancellation notifications.” The homepage steps are: download the app, “Link your Resy account using your phone number,” set a snatch request, then open the app when push notifications arrive in the minutes before the drop.

Its venue menu lists 31 restaurants, and the names it leads with include TATIANA by Kwame Onwuachi, Lilia, L’Artusi, Double Chicken Please and The Corner Store. On that last one its FAQ is candid: “Not regularly, but sometimes.” Its terms say it “cannot guarantee availability or performance on third-party platforms such as Resy,” which is true of every watcher, mine included.

The price, worked through

Per its pricing page, a single token is $29, a one-time payment: “Use one token for one successful reservation.” It is refundable “within 3 days if unused” and “valid for 1 year.” Five tokens cost $99, or $19.80 a table, marked “Non-refundable. Try one token first if unsure.” A free tier, “Payment not required,” covers free venues and cancellation alerts.

SeatSwiper’s full price list: your first booking is free, then a flat $5, charged only when a booking succeeds, with no subscription and nothing to buy in advance. A cancellation watch costs $1 to start, charged when the watch begins even if no table opens, not covered by the free first booking and not refunded, plus the same $5 if it wins you the table.

• One table. Snatchd: $29. SeatSwiper: $0, because the first booking is free.
• Five tables. Snatchd: $99, paid before any table is booked. SeatSwiper: $20, the first free and then four at $5.
• Ten tables. Snatchd: $198, two five-packs. SeatSwiper: $45, the first free and then nine at $5.

To be fair on the math: add $1 on the SeatSwiper side for every cancellation watch you start, won or not, while Snatchd’s cancellation alerts are free (you do the booking). After your first booking the gap is $14.80 to $24 a table, and Snatchd’s tokens are paid for before they book anything.

Booking versus alerts, and who has to be awake

Snatchd’s “Premium” feature “waits on daily new table releases, and books automatically.” Cancelled tables get a free feature instead: “When a push notification pops up, simply tap to secure your booking!” So by its own description, when someone cancels, the alert reaches you and you race for the table. That is the gap in reservation alerts vs auto-booking: an alert at 4:12 PM is only as good as your ability to tap at 4:12 PM.

The automatic part asks something of you too. Its FAQ says “As long as you open the app 15 seconds before the exact hour of the table drop, Snatch’d will handle the rest,” and its paid plans say “Keep your app or browser open during booking.” For a 10 AM weekday drop (see the Resy 10 AM drop explainer), that means being there with the app or browser open. SeatSwiper is set once and you walk away: it books the moment a table opens, new availability or someone cancelling, and you follow each watch from DRAFT to ARMED to RUNNING to BOOKED in a live race log at seatswiper.com.

Resy in New York, or three platforms anywhere

Everything I found on Snatchd’s site is about Resy in New York; its restaurant guides analyse “reservation patterns on Resy.com.” I found no mention of OpenTable, SevenRooms or another city on its site. If your table is a New York Resy room on its list, that costs you nothing. If not, SeatSwiper covers Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable with no curated list and no city limit, and some of the hardest rooms keep their book on SevenRooms (see the SevenRooms hidden-reservations guide).

Your reservation account

Both services act on your own account, and Snatchd’s terms are frank about the risk: “Your Resy account may be subject to suspension or termination by the respective platform,” and in that event “no refunds will be issued for the Service.” I can’t tell you how often that happens, and I won’t guess.

SeatSwiper can’t get your account banned. It books on your own Resy, SevenRooms or OpenTable account, in your name, one table for your own dinner, with nothing resold, transferred or listed. And it checks every few minutes, never nonstop: a watch reads at most once every 5 minutes, every 2.5 minutes in the final day before the reservation, at irregular times, under a per-account daily read cap. More in will a reservation service get my account banned.

Where Snatchd genuinely wins

There are real reasons to pick it, and I would rather you hear them from me.

• A free tier. Its free plan, “Payment not required,” includes cancellation alerts and free venues. SeatSwiper has no free alert tier.
• Published sell-out data. As of October 2026, its Lilia page says tables open 28 days ahead at 10 AM Eastern and dinner tables typically sell out in about 10 to 45 seconds. Useful even without the app; I publish nothing comparable.
• A native app. iPhone, iPad and a Chrome extension, with push alerts. On 26 October 2026 the App Store showed about 4.6 stars from 38 ratings. SeatSwiper runs in the browser only.
• Focus. It says it works “at millisecond speed.” I can’t test that, but for a scheduled Resy drop on its list, it is built for exactly that moment.
• A refundable first try. The single token can be refunded within 3 days if unused, and every plan lists 24/7 email support.

The case for SeatSwiper

It costs less, as the math above shows, with no tokens to buy in advance. It books cancellations as well as drops, instead of handing you an alert to race. You set it once rather than opening an app 15 seconds before the drop. It covers SevenRooms and OpenTable as well as Resy, in any city where they take reservations. And it can’t get your account banned, because it books one table on your own account, in your name, with nothing resold, and checks every few minutes, never nonstop.

Where SeatSwiper falls short

The limits, stated plainly. It covers Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable only. It needs your reservation account connected. At a room where prime seats go in seconds, it can lose a race for a single table, and then you pay nothing beyond any cancellation-watch start fee. It has no App Store app and no free alert tier, and I publish no success rate.

Who should pick which

Pick Snatchd if your restaurant is a New York Resy room on its list, or you want free cancellation alerts you’re happy to tap yourself, a native iPhone app or its sell-out data. On those points it is ahead.

Pick SeatSwiper if you want cancellations booked rather than flagged, can’t be there when the drop lands, or want a table on SevenRooms or OpenTable or outside New York. Comparing other New York booking apps? I have done the same for JustReservd and It’s a Date.