Comparison directory
Most guest tech starts at check-in. chucho starts earlier. Each property gets a public page that answers the questions guests ask before they book, with the booking button pointing at your own site. Once they book, Chucho Go puts the guide, your local picks, the services you offer and the day's conditions on their phone — no app, no account. The same guide can sit on a tablet in the property if you want one. Here is how that compares to the alternatives.
A guidebook link, a printed binder, a leased tablet, or a guidebook bolted to a property management system. Read the one closest to what you run today.
Touch Stay is a mature mobile guidebook: you write the house manual, guests open it from a link, and its chatbot answers from that content in 30+ languages. chucho covers the same ground and adds the step before the booking — a public property page with the booking on your own site — plus voice as well as text, local conditions, and ordering from town where partners are connected.
Guidebook vs. discovery-to-stay Read the Touch Stay comparison →A designed binder or PDF looks good and then goes stale: every change means re-editing, re-printing and driving to the property, and nobody can find it before they book. chucho publishes once and updates everywhere — the public page, the phone guide and the tablet all read the same content.
A file vs. a published guide Read the Canva comparison →YourWelcome leases a proprietary 8″ device running its own operating system, on a one-year contract, and includes local business advertising in the guest interface. chucho starts on the open web and the guest's own phone, shows only what you approve, and puts a tablet in the property only if you want one.
Leased hardware vs. your phone first Read the YourWelcome comparison →Hostfully Guidebooks is sold standalone, reaches guests by link, QR, PDF or print, and charges host-configured upsells through your own Stripe. chucho adds the public property page in front of it, answers in the guest's own words by text or voice in English and Spanish, and can place real orders in town where partners exist.
Guidebook module vs. the whole arc Read the Hostfully comparison →The landscape at a glance
Competitor cells describe what each company publishes on its own site, checked 2026‑09‑08. Where we could not find a feature documented, the cell says so rather than guessing.
| What the guest gets | Canva PDF / print binder | Touch Stay | YourWelcome | Hostfully Guidebooks | chucho |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public property page + outbound booking link | None | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Opt-in public page per property; the booking button goes to your own site |
| Guest guide on the phone (no app, no account) | A PDF the guest has to keep track of | Yes — guidebook opened from an SMS or email link | Not listed on their site | Yes — unique link, QR code, PDF or print | Yes — Chucho Go opens from a link or QR |
| Answers from your own content (text + voice, EN/ES) | None — it answers only what you thought to write down | Chatbot on all plans, plus auto-translation into 30+ languages; no voice channel listed | Fixed tile menu; their AI ranks offers and content behind the scenes, no conversational channel listed | Itinerary planner on every tier, not an open-ended conversation; no voice channel listed | Text and voice, English and Spanish, answered from what you published |
| Local picks and services | A list of names and phone numbers | Upsell widget and experience integrations; no real-time delivery ordering listed | Tickets to attractions and tours via a partner, plus local business advertising | Host-configured upsells charged through Stripe, plus affiliate tour links | Your picks, plus ordering from town where partners are connected, with a host share |
| Conditions (weather, tides, surf) | None | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Weather, tides and surf for the property's coast |
| Living guestbook | Pen on paper | Post-stay review capture; no living guestbook listed | Feedback ratings; no living guestbook listed | Automated post-stay review requests; no living guestbook listed | A guestbook guests write during the stay, kept across stays |
| In-property tablet | None | Not listed on their site | Required — proprietary 8″ device leased for the life of the subscription | Not listed on their site | Optional — $300 once, or bring your own Android |
| Host revenue model | Pure cost | Subscription only | Subscription, plus commission on services ordered through the tablet; guests also see third-party advertising | Subscription; upsell revenue is yours, charged through your own Stripe | Subscription, plus a host share on orders where partners are connected |
| Price | Design subscription plus printing | From $99 per year for one property; per-property cost falls at multi-property tiers | $449.99 per property per year, billed annually on a one-year contract | Free tier plus paid tiers; dollar figures not published on their site | Free for every property; $39 per property/month or $399 per property/year |
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