myHouseGuide vs Touch Stay: Which Fits Your Rental?

If you run one rental and want guests to find the Wi-Fi password, Touch Stay may be more software than you need. If you manage a growing portfolio and want scheduled messages, integrations, and upsells, myHouseGuide may be too focused.

Their scope separates them. myHouseGuide provides a focused, low-cost house manual. Touch Stay provides a broader guest communication platform.

This comparison uses public product and pricing information checked on August 19, 2026. Plans change, so confirm the final price with each provider before buying.

The short answer

Choose myHouseGuide if you want:

• A digital guide for $5 per month, $50 per year, or a $100 lifetime payment
• Unlimited properties without a per-property price
• AI-assisted import from PDFs, images, and pasted notes
• A shareable web guide and QR code without a larger operations platform

Choose Touch Stay if you want:

• Scheduled email and SMS guest messages
• PMS and booking-data integrations
• An upsell store, guest contacts, and guide analytics in one platform
• Offline access and shared content tools for a larger portfolio

For a broader look at what belongs in a guide, start with our digital guest guide overview.

myHouseGuide and Touch Stay at a glance

Question	myHouseGuide	Touch Stay
Starting commitment	$5/month	14-day free trial; price comes from its calculator
Annual option	$50/year	Available, with savings shown in the calculator
Lifetime option	$100 once	No public lifetime plan
Property allowance	Unlimited	Price varies with property count
Guest access	Browser link and QR code	Browser link, QR code, offline guide, and PDF
AI setup help	Import PDFs, images, or notes	Create a guidebook from an online listing; AI tools vary by plan
Automated guest messages	No	Yes, depending on plan
PMS integrations	No	Yes, depending on plan
Upsells and payments	No	Yes, depending on plan

Touch Stay now uses Starter, Growth, and Pro plans. Its pricing page asks for the type of guide, property count, currency, and billing schedule before showing a figure. That makes a live quote more reliable than an old price copied from a review site.

myHouseGuide publishes all three prices on its pricing page. Each plan includes unlimited properties, custom house manuals, QR codes, Wi-Fi QR codes, and property recommendations.

myHouseGuide focuses on the guide; Touch Stay adds guest operations

Hosts use myHouseGuide to give guests one clear place to find property information. They can add sections for arrival, Wi-Fi, rules, contacts, pets, quirks, local recommendations, and appliance instructions. Guests open the guide in a browser, with no account or app.

Touch Stay starts with the same guidebook job, then extends into guest operations. Its current plan comparison lists scheduled messages, guest-specific links, time-based access, contact collection, an ecommerce store, integrations, team management, and performance analytics. The Touch Stay feature table also lists offline and PDF guidebooks, shared content management, and Google Places recommendations.

Those extras are useful when the guidebook is part of a larger communication process. They also create more settings to choose and maintain.

Each product starts with existing material differently

myHouseGuide lets a host upload an existing PDF or images, or paste rough notes. AI sorts that source material into proposed property fields. The host reviews each field before it becomes part of the guide. This works well when the useful information already exists but needs a cleaner home.

Touch Stay can create a guidebook from an online listing. It also provides templates, a Content Hub for shared information, and a network of independent guidebook creators for customers who want hands-on help. Its demo hub shows the setup and guest views before you start a trial.

If your current manual is a PDF, our guide to replacing a PDF house manual explains what to move first.

Touch Stay suits automated messages and integrations

Touch Stay is the stronger option when a reservation should trigger the next action. Its plans can connect booking data, schedule pre-arrival and checkout messages, limit guide access by time, and display content based on booking source.

It also supports products and services inside the guest experience. A manager can offer early check-in, equipment rental, or another paid extra without sending the guest to a separate list.

myHouseGuide does not currently include PMS integrations, scheduled guest messaging, a CRM, or an upsell store. You share its link through the booking message you already use. For a solo host, that may be enough. For a team handling hundreds of arrivals, it may create work that Touch Stay can automate.

myHouseGuide wins on simple, predictable pricing

myHouseGuide costs the same whether you add one property or several. The $50 annual plan works out to about $4.17 per month, while the lifetime plan reaches the same cash cost as two annual renewals.

Touch Stay prices by use case, property count, currency, plan, and billing schedule. Annual billing can save up to 30%, according to its current pricing page. That model lets larger operators pay for more operational features, but it takes a calculator result to know the total.

A manager who needs automated messages may save more time with Touch Stay than the subscription difference. A host who sends one saved arrival message may not need those features.

What guests receive

Both products let guests open a mobile-friendly guide through a web link. Each supports QR-code access, brand styling, local recommendations, and content updates without replacing the original link.

myHouseGuide also supports guest-facing translations, printable guides, photos and videos, map-based recommendations, Wi-Fi QR codes, and searchable sections. You can see the flow in the live guest guide demo.

Touch Stay adds offline access, PDF output, content feedback, dynamic text, and guest-specific delivery. It says its guidebooks work across devices and can include video, map pins, links, and other embedded content on its guidebook product page.

Which one should you choose?

Pick myHouseGuide for a focused house manual

It is the better fit when you:

• Run a small rental business or several properties with similar needs
• Want a low, published price rather than a feature-tier decision
• Already use Airbnb, Vrbo, or another channel for guest messages
• Need to turn an existing binder, PDF, or notes into a web guide
• Do not need to sell extras or sync reservations

Pick Touch Stay for a guest communication system

It is the better fit when you:

• Want the guidebook tied to reservation data
• Need scheduled email or SMS messages
• Want an upsell store and guest contact collection
• Manage shared content across a team or large portfolio
• Need offline guide access or deeper PMS integrations

You can also compare myHouseGuide with Hostfully, or read our direct Touch Stay vs Hostfully comparison.

Choose based on the work after publication

Hosts who paste a link into an arrival message can cover the core job with myHouseGuide at a lower published price. Hosts who need reservation sync, scheduled messages, guest records, and paid extras should consider Touch Stay's wider workflow.

Create a myHouseGuide account and build the first version with one real property. A working guide will tell you more than another feature checklist.

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