GetAll Guide vs Hostfully Guidebooks
The closest comparison in this category, because both of us give you one guidebook free forever. Where we part company is price above one property, and what the guest's link does after check-out.
Hostfully Guidebooks: free for one; Pro from $7.99 per guidebook per month on annual billing · as published at the time of writing, August 2026
| Hostfully Guidebooks | GetAll Guide | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | One guidebook, forever | One property, forever |
| Price, three properties | About $288 a year on Pro | €110 a year on Pro |
| Guest access | A guidebook link you share | A private link per booking that expires after check-out |
| Door codes | Guidebook content | Withheld by the server until the time you set |
| Guest registration | Not the focus | On Pro, with a form that adapts to the document |
| Arrival times | Not a first-class feature | Asked per booking, in your property's time zone |
| Cleaner link | Not offered as a separate link | Included on Pro, with checklists and photo reports |
| Upsell marketplace | Yes, with partner offers | None — we sell software and nothing else |
| PMS integrations | Extensive | Calendar import only |
The honest starting point
Hostfully Guidebooks gives you one guidebook free, forever. So do we.
That is worth saying first, because it removes the laziest argument we could make. We are not the only free option, we did not invent the free tier in this category, and if you have one property and only want a guidebook, both products will do it and both will cost you nothing.
The comparison only gets interesting on two questions: what happens when you have a second property, and what the guest’s link does after they leave.
Price above the free tier
Hostfully’s published pricing starts at $7.99 per guidebook per month on annual billing, rising to $9.99 monthly, with bundled tiers above that.
Ours is €5 a month or €50 a year for the first property, plus €3 a month or €30 a year for each extra one.
For three properties that is roughly $288 a year against €110. The gap widens rather than narrows as you add more, because our extra properties cost less than the first one while theirs are priced per guidebook.
Both sets of numbers came from published pages at the time of writing. Both companies can change them, and you should check the current ones.
One link per booking, not one link per property
This is the structural difference, and it matters more than price.
Hostfully’s model is a guidebook you share. It has an address, and that address is the guidebook.
Ours is a link per booking. Each stay gets its own private address showing that guest’s name and dates, and it stops working after check-out — with a grace period you choose, up to thirty days. You can switch one off at any moment, or issue a new address if a link went to the wrong person.
The consequence shows up in the door code. Because a link belongs to one booking with known dates, the code can follow that booking’s clock: withheld entirely until the day before check-in, then present, then gone with the link. It is not hidden in the page and revealed with styling — before the reveal moment our server leaves it out of the page altogether, which you can confirm by viewing the source.
A permanent guidebook address cannot do that, because there is no check-out for it to be after.
What we treat as core rather than as extras
Three things ship here as ordinary parts of the product.
Guest registration, on Pro, with a form that asks the right fields for a Romanian ID card and different ones for a foreign passport, encrypted at rest and deleted automatically on a schedule you choose.
Arrival times, asked per booking, answered in your property’s time zone with the guest’s own clock beside it.
A cleaner link, permanent and separate, with its own task list and photo reports — built so it can never show a guest’s name.
What Hostfully has that we do not
An upsell marketplace, which is a real revenue line for hosts who use it. Extensive integrations with property management systems, where we have calendar import and nothing else. And the weight of an established company behind it, which is a legitimate reason to choose a vendor.
If those matter to you, they are good reasons, and we would rather you read them here than find out afterwards.
Choose GetAll Guide if
You have one to three places and the price above the free tier matters — €110 a year for three against roughly $288. You want each booking to have its own link that expires when the guest leaves, rather than one long-lived guidebook address. And you want the things around the guide that we treat as core rather than as extras: timed door codes, guest registration, arrival times and a cleaner link.
Create your guideChoose Hostfully if
You want an established vendor with a large customer base and years of edge cases already smoothed out, you would like a guidebook that can sit alongside a full property management system later, or you want the upsell marketplace — a genuine revenue line we simply do not have. If you manage properties professionally and already live in that ecosystem, staying inside it is a reasonable call.
- A genuinely free tier for one guidebook, forever, exactly as we have. They were doing it first.
- The guidebook arm of a full property management company, so it can sit beside a real PMS if you ever need one.
- Years of refinement, a large customer base, and a marketplace for upsells and partner offers that can earn you money.
- Established integrations across the property management world, where we have none.