# Hostfully review (2026): is it worth it? > Vacation rental property management software and digital guidebooks Checked Oct 24, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. Hostfully is property management software for short-term and mid-term rental managers, from single-listing hosts to large companies. It syncs listings with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and 60+ other channels, keeps reservations in a central calendar, and answers guests from a unified inbox. It also builds direct booking sites and digital guidebooks, and connects to 150+ partner tools. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Hostfully (since 2015) - **Website:** https://www.hostfully.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to see a price first, as the pricing page leads to a sales demo. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026 ## Pricing Hostfully's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Ways to pay less - **Fall savings: up to 30% off until October 31** (Other savings): A banner on Hostfully's site offers up to 30% off everything for customers who book a demo by October 31, 2026. Source: https://www.hostfully.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Channel manager and central calendar:** Syncs listings with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and 60+ channels, and shows every reservation in one calendar. - **Unified inbox and InboxAI:** Guest messages from all channels in one inbox tied to the listing data, with co-hosting support and InboxAI for replies. - **Direct booking sites:** A Basic site at a 0.85% booking fee, or a Premium site at 1.8% of each reservation with a $10 monthly minimum. - **Digital guidebooks:** Guidebooks with property information and paid extras for guests; the first guidebook is free with no credit card. - **Owners, tasks and reporting:** Owner management, task management, user permissions, pre-arrival forms and reporting and analytics within the PMS. - **Open API and integrations:** An open API and 150+ partner integrations, plus payment processing with PayPal, Stripe and Vacation Rent Payment. ## Good for - Property managers growing a short-term or mid-term rental portfolio - Hosts who want guest guidebooks alongside their property software - Managers who take direct bookings and want a booking site ## Worth knowing - Hostfully publishes no prices for its property management software; the pricing page leads to a sales demo. - Direct booking sites charge per booking: 0.85% on Basic, or 1.8% with a $10 monthly minimum on Premium. - Accounting, smart devices and Screen & Protect damage cover are add-ons, and AI Assist is listed as coming soon. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Hostfully syncs Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and 60+ other channels and adds digital guidebooks and direct booking sites to the usual inbox and calendar. It publishes no prices for its property software, so you only get one through a sales demo, and no trial is on record. Booking sites take a cut of each reservation, and accounting, devices and damage cover are add-ons. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published for the property software. The pricing page leads to a sales demo, so the price is only given on a sales call. Direct booking sites charge per booking on top: 0.85%, or 1.8% with a $10 monthly minimum. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record for the property software. Only the first digital guidebook is free, and that's a side product, not the software. - **Features: B.** Channel sync with 60+ channels, a central calendar, one inbox with AI replies, booking sites, guidebooks, owner and task management, reporting and an open API. That covers the whole job, with accounting and devices as add-ons and AI Assist still marked coming soon. - **Ease of use: C.** No app-store rating on record. You start through a demo and connect channels, owners and tasks, so there's a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, an open API and 150+ partner integrations, with PayPal and Stripe payments. There's no desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hostfully's own pages on 24 October 2026. Its pricing page shows no price. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among vacation rental tools - Hostfully's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 0 of the 10 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on features (B, above 2 of 10) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Hostfully you would be making two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 10 other vacation rental tools grade higher. - You could make: Tasks and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. - You could not: One mailbox that several people work at once. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Stripe, PayPal, PriceLabs **Tags:** Channel manager, Shared inbox, AI features, Tasks, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Guesty](https://toolgpa.com/tools/guesty): Property management software for short-term rental hosts and managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guesty-vs-hostfully) - [Hostaway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostaway): Vacation rental PMS and channel manager for property managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostaway-vs-hostfully) - [OwnerRez](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ownerrez): Vacation rental software priced per property, channel manager included. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostfully-vs-ownerrez) - [Uplisting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/uplisting): Short-term rental channel manager with flat or pay-per-booking plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostfully-vs-uplisting) - [Lodgify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lodgify): Vacation rental software with a direct booking website builder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostfully-vs-lodgify) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026: - https://www.hostfully.com - https://www.hostfully.com/pricing/ - https://www.hostfully.com/resources/faq/ - https://www.hostfully.com/about-us/ - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hostfully/id1614727748 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hostfully.app&gl=US&hl=en Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostfully Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).