Guesty For Hosts vs Vintory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guesty For Hosts
Manage short-term rentals efficiently from your mobile device. This platform consolidates reservations, guest communication, team tasks, and financial reporting from multiple booking channels into one easy-to-use application.
- Universal reservation calendar
- Unified guest inbox
- Team task management
- Automated guest communication
- Direct booking website
- Financial reporting
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Guesty For Hosts, previously Your Porter App, is an intuitive & affordable app to manage short-term rentals on-the-go. The only mobile-first rental management platform of its kind, Guesty For Hosts was built to enable hosts & small-scale property owners to access our full suite of tools in the easiest way possible. With the Guesty For Hosts app, you can: - Manage reservations from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and more — all on one universal calendar - Communicate with guests from all booking channels via one Unified Inbox - Seamlessly manage your team and assign their tasks - Automate your guest communication & save 40+ hours a week - Manage your own booking website to drive more direct bookings - Keep track of your revenue & payments with detailed financial reports
Vintory
This platform helps vacation rental managers acquire more properties. It offers CRM and sales automation tools to streamline lead capture, nurturing, and marketing efforts. Grow your business efficiently with automated features and centralized dashboards.
- Property acquisition CRM
- Sales & marketing automation
- Omnichannel marketing
- Automated lead nurturing
- AI-powered personalization
- Centralized dashboards
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The #1 Property Acquisition Platform - Vintory is the first and only CRM and Sales & Marketing Automation Platform designed exclusively for Vacation Rental Managers to grow their inventory. Growing your business is hard, and managing the many demands that come with it is even harder. Vintory is your simple to set-up, easy to use solution to cut the clutter and consistently add new properties to your program. Grow smarter, faster and bigger with built in automation that will keep you organised and one step ahead of the competition. Capture more homeowners through our omnichannel marketing approach Convert more leads with automatic lead nurturing and personalised AI Know which campaigns are hitting the mark with centralised dashboards Whether you’re a new business or growing enterprise, Vintory has the technology, community and expertise to accelerate your growth. Capture more leads, close more deals and grow your revenue with Vintory - your inventory growth machine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vintory at 5.0 against Guesty For Hosts's 3.1. Vintory also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium). Guesty For Hosts's advantage is ratings volume (151 vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vintory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guesty For Hosts has 151 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Guesty For Hosts ships an update every 3 weeks, Vintory every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 22, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guesty For Hosts | Vintory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (151 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 151 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 337 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LOCASOFT BV | Vintory LLC |
Customer experience
Guesty For Hosts
Vintory
Bugs and requests
Guesty For Hosts
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes and won't open
- Login credentials not recognized
- Calendar fails to load properly
- Double bookings despite blocked dates
- Smart lock codes not generated for reservations
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- Cleaner notifications failing to send
- Auto-messages failing to send
- Push notifications not working
- Message text deleted when sending photos
- Typing interface covers content on screen
- Navigation back arrow disappears on certain pages
- iCal sync not working reliably
- Pricing changes not syncing to listings
- Guest phone numbers and emails not syncing to calendar
- Instant book toggle turning off unexpectedly
- App signing out randomly
- Messaging feature takes excessive time to load
- Notifications don't navigate to relevant features
- iPad multi-calendar won't load
- Password reset links not being sent
Requested features
12 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to customize amenities accurately
- Emoji support in listing descriptions
- Multi-user account access for team members
- Cleaner feedback and photo upload functionality
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- Improved analytics and reporting dashboard
- Integration with additional OTA platforms beyond Airbnb/VRBO/Booking.com
- French language translation
- Better iPad/tablet optimization
- Faster message thread loading
- Customizable calendar view options
- Monthly revenue view without custom date selection
Vintory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Guesty For Hosts
No in-app purchases
Vintory
No in-app purchases









