The ultimate list of Airbnb tools for hosts
If you want to see the best Airbnb tools in one place, then you’ll LOVE this (updated) guide.
I personally tested and reviewed a tonne of free and paid tools.
And you can filter through the list to find the best Airbnb software for you.
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Dynamic Pricing Tools For Airbnb
Airbnb pricing tools automate the process of optimising prices for your Airbnb listing. A listing with optimised prices will get more bookings, at better prices than one that doesn't.
Top Pick
Wheelhouse
Pricing Tool for Airbnb | Paid
Wheelhouse lets you customise your pricing strategy to meet your match your hosting goals.
Whether it's aggressively holding out for the best possible price, or fine-tuning your pricing for maximum occupancy and everything in between.
Build a pricing strategy around your revenue goals. Moreover, it'll adjust these prices every 24hours for the next 365 day time horizon, ensuring competitive pricing always.
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Price Labs
Pricing Tool for Airbnb | Paid
Unlike the the other pricing tools in the space, PriceLabs uses a monthly billing subscription instead of a commission per booking model.
This can be especially advantageous to property managers with 100's of listings on their books.
Furthermore, it has over 30+ integrations with many of the best Airbnb hosting tools, property management systems, and channel managers.
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Beyond Pricing
Pricing Tool for Airbnb | Paid
Beyond Pricing takes from years of experience in the Airline and Hotel industry and applies that same knowledge to Airbnb.
In operation since 2013, Beyond Pricing has arguably the most accurate pricing algorithm in the space.
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Vayoo
Pricing Tool for Airbnb | Paid
Vayoo is a handy little tool that not only focuses on dynamic pricing, but also the visibility of your listing with in Airbnb's search results pages.
Moreover, unlike many of the other dynamic pricing tools in this list Vayoo has an App too.
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https://www.vayoo.com/ *Vayoo has now closed for business.
Rate Genie
Pricing Tool for Hosts | Paid
Rate Genie is not specific to just Airbnb, instead it is a cross platform pricing tool for the entire short-term rental industry.
And it comes with a flat-rate monthly fee structure from just $9.99.
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Perfect Price
Pricing Tool | Paid
This tool is VERY different from the others mentioned in this list and is definitely not suitable for the everyday host. However, if you're managing upwards of 100+ listings then Perfect Price could be worth a look.
Instead of using industry wide data-sets to build out the pricing algorithms for your listing, Perfect Price builds, and refines complex advanced algorithms bespoke to your needs.
This is enterprise level software built for big business, not for your average Ma and Pa operation.
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Automated Messaging Tools For Airbnb
Automated messaging tools allow you to automate 80-90%+ of all guest communication (if you set it up right that is).
It works by creating a messaging sequence that gets triggered to send at different intervals throughout a guests stay - right from initial booking to checkout.
Smartbnb
Top Pick
Automated Messaging Tool | Paid
Smartbnb is my favourite tool in the entire Airbnb ecosystem, and there's a good reason why...
Virtually every message I send, every guest review I make, every cleaner reminder I send, is ALL automated.
The whole lot!
And you'd think it'd be super complicated to set up too, but it's totally not (even my nan could do it).
What's more, it comes with a price tag that makes it a no brainer too.
Put simply, this is the best Airbnb tool on the market right now, and what's even better...
Is it keeps improving.
Bravo Smartbnb team, bravo.
*If you want an in-depth breakdown, go check out my review of Smartbnb here.
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Host Tools
Automated Messaging Tool | Paid
Host Tools doubles down as both an automated messaging tool with dynamic pricing too.
Does what many of the more expensive tools do for a fraction of the price, and it's simple and easy to use too.
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iGMS
Automated Messaging Tool | Paid
iGMS (formally Airgms) is packed with all the features you'd expect from an automated messaging tool, plus some neat integrations with other platforms like Home Away, VRBO, etc.
There's more to this software than meets the eye, you've just got to dig in a little to find it.
*Click here to read my in-depth review of iGMS here.
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Your Porter App
Automated Messaging Tool | Paid
This tool is simple, affordable, and effective.
It has everything a small-scale host could need - Automated messaging, reviews, iCal integration, etc.
Plus, similar to software triple the price you can build out your own branded website and drive bookings minus the commissions taken from Airbnb.
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Hosty App
Automated Messaging Tool | Paid
Hosty is one of the few tools in this list that actually offers a free basic plan to hosts with under four listings.
The basic plan - although limited in features - will still handle the automation and delivery of messages plus a few other basics too.
If you wanted to move up to the next tear and get task management, and automated reviews, and a whole host of other features you're still only looking at a very affordable $5p/m
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Airbnb Channel Managers
Channel managers give you one centralised location to control all of your listings across multiple different platforms, synchronise calendars, pricing and more.
Tokeet
Airbnb Channel Manager | Paid
Tokeet really delivers as a channel manager enabling hosts to maximise the exposure of their listings across multiple channels, including booking.com, Trip Adviser, Everipedia and many more.
And unlike many other tools in this space they actually have options for small scale hosts too.
So, even if you only have just the one property, you can still leverage the exposure across multiple channels.
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Guesty
Airbnb Channel Manager | Paid
One of Guesty's most unique features is the flexibility of it's custom website builder.
Sure you can use their own custom templates, or if you'd like complete flexibility you can even add it to a pre-existing site using their custom widget.
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Airbnb Digital Guidebooks Tools
Digital guidebooks are more than just fluffy, pretty little add-ons for your guest. In fact, used correctly they can reduce your workload as a host, and add a tonne of value to your guests.
Touch Stay
Top Pick
Digital Guidebook | Paid
I really like the interface that Touch Stay uses for their digital guidebooks. It's elegant, sophisticated and slick (a little like me. lol).
It's got a great user interface for your guests, and packages all of your information in a really nice way.
A great little tool.
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Hostfully
Digital Guidebook | Paid
Digital guidebooks can add that little extra to your guests experience.
Hostfully has a really neat digital guidebook creator that'll help you package your house manual, check-out times, house rules, etc. in an interactive way.
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Airbnb Cash Advance Tools
It's now possible to get a cash advance on the future earnings of your Airbnb rental. A few different services have sprung up in this space recently, and I'm sure its something that's only going to grow.
Payfully
Airbnb Cash Advance | Paid
Payfully helps hosts access the money tied up in bookings before the booking date. Essentially they provide a cash advance service for hosts that may need to manage their cashflow at different times of the year.
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Airbnb Market Research Tools
If you're looking to invest in a property to list on Airbnb, then it's a good idea to understand the competition and demand in your area. That's where market research tools like these come in handy.
Airdna
Market research tool | Paid
Airdna provides short term rental data and analytics for property managers to make informed, smart investment decisions.
It analyzes market data from over 10 million short-term rental properties worldwide.
And it tracks over 25 different metric sets like occupancy rates, average price per night, rental revenue and much more.
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Tools For Airbnb SEO
Airbnb SEO is the process of manipulating your listing to impact your position in Airbnb's search results pages. These tools help to give you feedback so you can make improvements and track your results.
RankBreeze
Airbnb Seo Tools | Paid
RankBreeze helps you track your performance in Airbnb's search results pages. Using this data you can make adjustments to your listing to improve your listings performance over time.
They also offer an additional copywriting service whereby they'll help in writing search friendly listing descriptions to squeeze out any extra ranking opportunities.
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My recommended toolset
There are a lot of great tools on this list, but here's my recommended basic tech stack for new hosts:
So…What Do You Think?
Now I want to hear from you.
What do you think of this list?
Or maybe I missed one of your favorite tools.
Either way, let me know by leaving a comment below.
Wow Rowan. You’ve outdone yourself here. This is a fantastic and thoroughly in-depth post. You’ve given me , much to think about and implement for my business.
Thanks heaps Loren
Thanks Loren. Stoked you liked it.
Hi Rowan,
So happy I ran across your blog and this info because it’s one of the most well written and informative that I’ve seen anywhere on these topics. Up to now, I was searching for tools like these via things like Capterra -but those sources just haven’t been doing the trick. With your great info, I think we’re now ready to try out some of these tools for our 5 listings in California and Utah. So thanks!
Just one question: are you compensated by any of these tool makers/companies (ie, any sort or payment, free access to their tools, etc.), for reviewing them? It’s fine by me if you are but it just helps me further contextualize your info. Thanks again, great stuff.
Hey Jason.
Yeah, I was looking for the same info too but couldn’t find it so figured I’d have to create it myself instead.
I get a kick-back from a few of the products listed (whichever ones have affiliate programs) as a way of monetizing the blog. I try to keep things as impartial as possible and do my best on that front.
But yeah, stoked you liked it. I’ll be adding to it over time as a handy resource moving into the future too – so if there are any tools out there that aren’t listed just let me know and I’ll add them to the list.
– Rowan.
I use Smartbnb too 🙂