Guesty For Hosts vs Hostify Tasks
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
Hostify Tasks
This app simplifies task management for vacation rental properties. Property managers and staff can create, assign, and track tasks, and communicate directly within the application to ensure properties are well-maintained for guests.
- Task creation and assignment
- Task tracking
- In-app communication
- Integration with Hostify PMS
- Property maintenance organization
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Hostify Tasks is a simple task management app for vacation rental and short-term rental properties. Property managers and cleaning/maintenance staff can easily create, assign, and track tasks, and communicate within the app. Fully integrated with the Hostify PMS, Hostify Tasks is the perfect solution for organizing and streamlining daily tasks and ensuring that vacation rentals and short-term rental properties are well-maintained and ready for guests
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Guesty For Hosts at 53% against Hostify Tasks's 0%. Guesty For Hosts also leads on rating (3.1 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (151 vs 1). Hostify Tasks's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Guesty For Hosts holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guesty For Hosts has 151 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Guesty For Hosts's written reviews are positive against 0% of Hostify Tasks's.
Guesty For Hosts ships an update every 3 weeks, Hostify Tasks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guesty For Hosts | Hostify Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (151 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 151 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LOCASOFT BV | Hostify |
Customer experience
Guesty For Hosts
Hostify Tasks
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
Hostify Tasks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Guesty For Hosts
No in-app purchases
Hostify Tasks
No in-app purchases
Questions
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