Comparison

Best Digital Guidebooks for Short-Term Rentals

The best guest guide is not the one with the longest feature list. It is the one your guests can find, understand, and actually use.

Short-term rental hosts have more digital guidebook options than ever. Most can handle the basics: Wi-Fi, check-in details, house rules, and local recommendations. The real differences are how easy they are to manage and how naturally guests use them.

Touch Stay

Touch Stay is one of the best-known dedicated digital guidebook platforms. It is a strong choice for hosts who want a mature product, lots of customization, and a traditional self-managed guidebook workflow.

Hostfully Guidebooks

Hostfully makes sense for property managers already using its broader property-management ecosystem. It combines guest information and local recommendations in a familiar digital guide format.

DIY guides

A PDF, Canva document, Notion page, or simple website can work for one property. The tradeoff is maintenance. The more rentals you operate, the harder it becomes to keep every link, instruction, and recommendation current.

PLAQRD

PLAQRD is built for hosts who do not want another blank software dashboard to configure. You provide the property information, we build the mobile guide, and guests open it from a physical QR touchpoint inside the rental.

If you want maximum DIY control, there are good platforms available. If you want the guide handled for you and presented as part of the stay itself, PLAQRD is the better fit.