Comparison

Opulist 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

Opulist

Discover stunning hotels, restaurants, and bars with a curated guide to design-forward locations. Find beautiful places based on city, category, or desired vibe, with gorgeous photography to preview your next destination.

Highlights
  • Curated guide to stunning places
  • Search by city, category, or vibe
  • Gorgeous photography previews
  • Design-forward hotels, restaurants, bars
  • Discover spots near you and while traveling
Features
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Ever wish there was a Yelp, but only for the beautiful places? Same. That's why we built Opulist: a hand-picked, curated guide to the most beautiful hotels, restaurants, and bars actually worth your time. No messy reviews. No bad lighting. Just design-forward spots worth visiting. WHAT YOU GET • A curated guide to stunning places to stay, eat, and drink • Search by city, category, or the exact vibe you're after • Gorgeous photography, so you see a place before you ever set foot in it • Design-forward hotels, restaurants, bars, and cafes, hand-picked not crowd-sourced • Beautiful spots near you and wherever you travel next Flip through the photos. Find somewhere stunning. Go. Because where you go should feel as good as it looks. Download Opulist and discover the most beautiful places to stay, eat, and drink, in your city and beyond.

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

Opulist3 screens
Hotel Please4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Opulist at 30 against Hotel Please's 8. Opulist also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 — 5.0 for Opulist against 5.0 for Hotel Please. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Opulist ships an update every 3 days, Hotel Please daily. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Opulist versus Hotel Please: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpulistHotel Please
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (30 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings30 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperOpulistAmbie, LLC

Customer experience

Opulist

All ratings28 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hotel Please

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

In-app purchases

None

Opulist

No in-app purchases

None

Hotel Please

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Opulist free?
Opulist 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, Opulist or Hotel Please?
Opulist and Hotel Please are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 30 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Opulist or Hotel Please have ads?
Neither Opulist nor Hotel Please shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Opulist or Hotel Please?
Opulist ships an update every 3 days, and Hotel Please daily. Most recently, Opulist was updated on October 22, 2026 and Hotel Please on October 15, 2026.

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