Is Boostly or Hostfully better?

Neither clearly leads. Boostly starts at On request and Hostfully at $15/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Boostly or Hostfully?

Boostly starts at On request and Hostfully at $15/month.

Does Boostly or Hostfully run on more platforms?

Boostly runs on Web. Hostfully runs on Web, iOS, Android.

What is Boostly best used for?

Boostly is most often used for a manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut ota commission on repeat guests, an owner with a strong local brand in a destination where airbnb visibility is expensive, a host who already runs hostaway and needs a marketing front end rather than another pms, an operator building an email list of past guests to drive off-season occupancy. Of those, a manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut ota commission on repeat guests and an owner with a strong local brand in a destination where airbnb visibility is expensive are not what Hostfully is typically brought in for.

What can Boostly do that Hostfully cannot?

Boostly covers Custom WordPress site, PMS booking widget, Direct card payments, Marketing curriculum. Hostfully covers Channel management, Digital Guidebooks, Owner portal, Direct booking engine.

Travel · head to head

Boostly vs Hostfully

Boostly

Travel

Done-for-you direct booking websites and marketing coaching for short-term rental hosts

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

Hostfully

Travel

Vacation rental property management platform with per-property pricing and digital guidebooks

From: $15/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Boostly the dominant cost is the one-off build fee, which is quoted rather than published and typically runs into the thousands, so the monthly figure hosts quote to each other badly understates the commitment.; Hostfully the advertised per property price excludes a platform fee that is not published anywhere on the pricing page, so no listed figure is a real monthly cost until sales quotes it.
They diverge on capability: Boostly covers Custom WordPress site, Hostfully covers Channel management.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Boostly and Hostfully actually diverge.

Attributes where Boostly and Hostfully differ
Attribute	Boostly	Hostfully
Starting price	On request	$15/month
Pricing model	quote	Per property per month
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Boostly

Custom WordPress site
PMS booking widget
Direct card payments
Marketing curriculum
Host community
Email capture and nurture
SEO groundwork
Podcast and content library

Only in Hostfully

Channel management
Digital Guidebooks
Owner portal
Direct booking engine
Unified inbox
Pipeline and lead management

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Boostly

A manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut OTA commission on repeat guestsnot Hostfully
An owner with a strong local brand in a destination where Airbnb visibility is expensivenot Hostfully
A host who already runs Hostaway and needs a marketing front end rather than another PMSnot Hostfully
An operator building an email list of past guests to drive off-season occupancynot Hostfully

Hostfully

A manager with thirty units who wants channel sync, an owner portal and a direct booking site under one subscriptionnot Boostly
A host who only wants professional check-in and local recommendation guidebooks and will buy Digital Guidebooks without the PMSnot Boostly
An operator pushing guests towards direct bookings who needs the Pro tier because the Growth tier taxes exactly that revenuenot Boostly
A property manager onboarding third-party owners who need visible reporting on their own unitsnot Boostly

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Boostly

The dominant cost is the one-off build fee, which is quoted rather than published and typically runs into the thousands, so the monthly figure hosts quote to each other badly understates the commitment.
It is a website and a marketing programme, not a property management system; you still need and still pay for a PMS underneath it.
Results depend entirely on your own effort producing content and email, and a site with no traffic strategy produces no direct bookings regardless of how well it is built.
The build is WordPress, which means plugin updates, hosting decisions and the security exposure that comes with the platform, all of which land on you or on a paid maintenance arrangement.
Coaching and community are a large share of what you pay for, which is poor value for an operator who already has marketing capability and only wants the booking site.

Hostfully

The advertised per property price excludes a platform fee that is not published anywhere on the pricing page, so no listed figure is a real monthly cost until sales quotes it.
The Growth tier charges 1% on payments and 0.85% on direct bookings, so the operators most focused on direct revenue are penalised on the cheaper plan and effectively forced to Pro.
Pricing is per property, so a portfolio of small low-revenue units pays the same per listing as high-revenue ones and studio-heavy portfolios carry a disproportionate cost.
Accounting is lighter than manager-grade competitors, with no full trust accounting, so client fund segregation has to be handled outside the platform.
Digital Guidebooks are sold and priced separately from the PMS, so the product Hostfully is best known for is an additional line on the invoice rather than part of the subscription.

Pricing, plan by plan

Boostly

On request

Boostly direct booking website$undefined/year
- One-off build and setup fee quoted per customer, commonly in the low thousands
- Ongoing platform and support subscription billed monthly or annually
- Marketing programme and community access included

Hostfully

$15/month

Growth$15/month
- 1 to 50 listings
- $15 per property per month plus a platform fee
- 1% payment gateway fee
Pro$25/month
- 1 to 199 listings
- $25 per property per month plus a platform fee
- No payment gateway fee
Enterprise$undefined/month
- 200 or more listings
- Custom volume pricing plus a platform fee
- Priority support

Which should you pick?

Choose Boostly if

You need custom wordpress site.
You also want pms booking widget.

Boostly review

Choose Hostfully if

You need channel management.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want digital guidebooks.

Hostfully review

Questions people ask

Is Boostly or Hostfully better?: Neither clearly leads. Boostly starts at On request and Hostfully at $15/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Boostly or Hostfully?: Boostly starts at On request and Hostfully at $15/month.
Does Boostly or Hostfully run on more platforms?: Boostly runs on Web. Hostfully runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Boostly best used for?: Boostly is most often used for a manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut ota commission on repeat guests, an owner with a strong local brand in a destination where airbnb visibility is expensive, a host who already runs hostaway and needs a marketing front end rather than another pms, an operator building an email list of past guests to drive off-season occupancy. Of those, a manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut ota commission on repeat guests and an owner with a strong local brand in a destination where airbnb visibility is expensive are not what Hostfully is typically brought in for.
What can Boostly do that Hostfully cannot?: Boostly covers Custom WordPress site, PMS booking widget, Direct card payments, Marketing curriculum. Hostfully covers Channel management, Digital Guidebooks, Owner portal, Direct booking engine.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Boostly: Is Boostly a property management system?

No. It builds direct booking websites and teaches marketing. Your PMS stays where it is and Boostly plugs into it.

Hostfully: What is the platform fee?

Hostfully does not publish it. Ask for the total monthly figure for your listing count in writing before comparing plans.

Boostly: What does it actually cost?

Pricing is not published. The structure is a substantial one-off build fee, commonly quoted in the low thousands of US dollars, plus a smaller ongoing subscription.

Hostfully: Which tier is cheaper in practice?

Pro, for anyone with real direct booking volume. Growth is $10 less per property but adds 1% on payments and 0.85% on direct bookings.

Boostly: Do I own the website?

It is built on WordPress, so unlike a closed platform site you retain something transferable, though moving it off Boostly means taking on hosting and maintenance yourself.

Hostfully: Can I buy guidebooks alone?

Yes. Digital Guidebooks are priced separately and are commonly bought without the PMS.

Boostly: Will it replace Airbnb bookings?

Only to the extent you drive traffic to it. The site converts demand you generate; it does not create demand on its own.

Hostfully: Is there a minimum property count?

No stated minimum, but per property pricing plus a platform fee makes it uneconomic for one or two units.

Boostly vs Hostfully

Boostly

Hostfully

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Boostly

Only in Hostfully

What people use each for

Boostly

Hostfully

Where each one falls short

Boostly

Hostfully

Pricing, plan by plan

Boostly

Hostfully

Which should you pick?

Choose Boostly if

Choose Hostfully if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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