Comparison

Tablet Hotels vs Hotel Please

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tablet Hotels

Discover and book unique boutique and luxury hotels worldwide. This app offers a curated selection of stylish accommodations with exceptional service and personality. Enjoy exclusive discounts and personalized assistance from travel experts.

Highlights
  • Curated hotel selection
  • Book best rates
  • Insider Sale discounts
  • Verified guest reviews
  • Concierge-grade customer service
  • Tablet Plus VIP upgrades
Features
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Tablet Hotels — The original curated hotel selection. Tablet is your source for booking the world’s most exciting hotels — places where you’ll find a memorable experience, not just a room for the night. Along with a hand-picked selection of unforgettable hotels. It’s all the places you want to go, all in one place. For over twenty years the travel experts at Tablet have scoured the earth to find hotels that stand out for their extraordinary style, service, and personality. We don’t have every hotel — we have every hotel that matters. From hip indie boutiques to grand old palaces, the Tablet app allows you to seamlessly book their best rates, including Tablet’s private Insider Sale discounts. To help ensure that our selection stays fresh and vital, reviews from verified Tablet guests are used to create the Tablet Score, a running tabulation of what you think about a hotel. And what you think matters — if a hotel's scores are less-than-stellar, we’ll remove them. App users receive concierge-grade customer service from Tablet’s Travel Specialists, who are available to assist with every step of your journey. There’s no cost to use the app and no membership is required. Sign up for a free 30-day trial of Tablet Plus and you’ll receive VIP upgrades and amenities at hundreds of participating hotels. See new places. Eat amazing meals. Take the Tablet Hotels app wherever you go. Download today.

About

Hotel Please

Discover and book unique boutique hotels with detailed profiles, including history, neighborhood, and amenities. Rate hotels based on specific vibes and create your personal travel bucket list.

Highlights
  • Detailed hotel profiles
  • In-app booking
  • Vibe-based ratings (medals)
  • Hotel bucket list
  • Stamping past stays
  • City hotel swipe feature
Features
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Find your dream hotel, get to know it inside out, and book it right here. There's just something about a good hotel. The room that got the light right. The bartender who's worked there twenty years and isn't going anywhere. The lobby someone spent years and a fortune on, where you can wander in and order a coffee like you own the place. You check out, and years later you can still walk that hallway in your head. Hotel Please is for those hotels. The grande dames that have been quietly perfect since 1897. The ryokan with eleven rooms. The one in Mexico City a designer clearly lost their mind over, in the best way. The riad you'd fly a long way just to sit in the courtyard of. Every hotel in here got in because someone decided it was worth it. We research each one ourselves, choose the photos, and write it up like it matters, because it does. No hotel pays to be included, and nothing is sponsored. EVERY DETAIL BEFORE YOU GO Every hotel gets a full profile: the rooms, the pool and spa, where to eat and drink, its history and the neighborhood around it. Everything you'd want to know before you get there. BOOK IT RIGHT HERE Pick your dates and see live prices for every room and rate, taxes and fees included, with the cancellation terms spelled out. When you find the one, book it without leaving the app. MEDALS, NOT STARS Every hotel is rated across eight vibes, from gold down to listed: Design, Luxe, Heritage, Local, Wellness, Social, Resort and Classic. A medal only for what a place is genuinely great at, and gold is rare on purpose. One medal a hotel truly earned tells you more than a 4.6 average ever will. YOUR HOTEL BUCKET LIST Heart a hotel the second you hear about it, before you have any excuse to go. KEEP THE ONES YOU'VE STAYED IN Stamp a stay and it's yours. The year, the room, what you thought. Stamps fill up slowly and mean something. SWIPE A CITY Swipe through a city's hotels one at a time. Keep the ones you'd book, and we'll write you a guide from your picks. No ads. No deals near you. Just hotels worth knowing about, in your pocket, for the next time someone asks where to stay.

Screenshots

Tablet Hotels4 screens
Hotel Please4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tablet Hotels and Hotel Please both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Hotel Please's written reviews are positive against 55% of Tablet Hotels's. Hotel Please also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Tablet Hotels's advantage is ratings volume (4.3K vs 8). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tablet Hotels against 5.0 for Hotel Please. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tablet Hotels has 4.3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Tablet Hotels's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hotel Please's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tablet Hotels ships an update monthly, Hotel Please daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tablet Hotels versus Hotel Please: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTablet HotelsHotel Please
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (4.3K ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.3K — better8
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTablet IncAmbie, LLC

Customer experience

Tablet Hotels

All ratings4,260 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive54.8%
Neutral3.2%
Negative41.9%

Hotel Please

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tablet Hotels

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Search functionality not working properly
  • Frequent app crashes and errors
  • Tablet Plus benefits not applying correctly
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • More hotel variety and locations
  • Improved search and filtering options
  • Ability to check availability without booking
  • Notification system for bookings
  • iPad-specific app version

Hotel Please

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tablet Hotels

No in-app purchases

None

Hotel Please

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tablet Hotels free?
Tablet Hotels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hotel Please free?
Hotel Please is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tablet Hotels or Hotel Please?
Hotel Please is rated higher. Tablet Hotels averages 4.9 out of 5 from 4.3K ratings, while Hotel Please averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Tablet Hotels or Hotel Please have ads?
Neither Tablet Hotels nor Hotel Please shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tablet Hotels or Hotel Please?
Tablet Hotels ships an update monthly, and Hotel Please daily. Most recently, Tablet Hotels was updated on October 24, 2026 and Hotel Please on October 15, 2026.

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