What kind of information can I store in Keylodger?

Anything operational tied to a property. WiFi names and passwords, lock codes, cleaner contacts, utility account details, insurance information, listing links, maintenance contacts, property notes, and any other detail your team needs to access quickly.

Is Keylodger only for Airbnb hosts?

No. Keylodger is built for anyone who manages or owns property — short-term rental hosts, long-term rental owners, real estate investors, and property management companies. If you need to organize and quickly retrieve property information, Keylodger is for you.

Can I use it for multiple properties?

Yes. The free plan includes 1 property. Paid plans let you add your full portfolio. Every property gets its own organized profile that you can switch between instantly.

Is sensitive information protected?

Yes. Fields like lock codes, account numbers, and passwords are hidden by default. You reveal them on demand. Keylodger uses Supabase for auth and data storage, with all data scoped to your account.

Do I need a credit card to start?

No. The free plan requires no credit card. Sign up with your email or Google account and add your first property immediately.

Yes. You start free and upgrade whenever you're ready. There is no time limit on the free plan. You keep your free property even after upgrading.

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Software ReviewsJune 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Best Short-Term Rental Software in 2026: What Each Tool Misses

An honest review of Guesty, Hostaway, Hospitable, Lodgify, OwnerRez, Turno, and PriceLabs — and the one job none of them do: instant property information retrieval.

Grid of short-term rental software tool icons with one empty slot holding a key, labeled the missing layer in every STR stack

The short-term rental software market in 2026 is crowded, mature, and genuinely good at what it does. Channel managers sync your calendars flawlessly. Dynamic pricing tools squeeze out extra revenue every night. Guest messaging runs itself. And yet most hosts we talk to still keep their WiFi passwords in a notes app and their lock codes in a group text.

That's the gap this review is about. Below is a fair look at the best short-term rental tools on the market — what they're great at, what they cost, and the one job none of them were built to do.

The big property management systems (PMS)

Guesty — best for large portfolios

Guesty is the enterprise standard. It centralizes bookings, calendars, payments, and guest communication across every major channel, with entry pricing around $27 per listing per month on the Lite plan and custom pricing for bigger operators. If you run 50+ listings with a team, Guesty is built for you. What it misses: Guesty is reservation-centric. Ask it "what's the lockbox code at the lake house?" and you'll be clicking through nested property settings — there's no fast, owner-side answer layer for operational details.

Hostaway — best for growing portfolios

Hostaway is the AI-powered all-in-one for mid-sized operators: channel management, unified inbox, direct bookings, and revenue tools across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Expedia. It automates the guest side beautifully. What it misses: the host side. Your cleaner's phone number, the water shutoff location, the alarm PIN — Hostaway can store some of it in custom fields, but retrieval means navigating a dashboard built for reservations, not a two-second search.

Hospitable — best automation on a budget

Hospitable made waves in 2026 with an Essentials plan that has no monthly subscription fee, plus excellent AI messaging automation and a direct booking site builder. It answers your guests' questions automatically. What it misses: it doesn't answer your questions. There's no portfolio-wide search for the operational facts you reach for twenty times a week.

Lodgify and OwnerRez — best for direct bookings and power users

Lodgify (from $16/month) gives you a booking website and an award-winning channel manager. OwnerRez offers deep control for experienced operators who want to configure everything. Both are excellent at distribution and reservations. Neither has a fast answer for "which WiFi network is the hot tub controller on?"

The specialist tools

Turno — automates cleaning scheduling and cleaner payments. Great at when the turnover happens; not built to hold what the cleaner needs to know about the property.
PriceLabs / Beyond — dynamic pricing engines that adjust nightly rates. Pure revenue tools; zero operational memory.
Touch Stay / digital guidebooks — beautiful guest-facing manuals for check-in instructions and house rules. By design, they exclude everything sensitive: lock master codes, utility accounts, insurance policies, vendor contacts.

The gap: every tool serves guests or bookings. None serves your memory.

Map the STR stack and a pattern appears: PMS tools manage reservations, pricing tools manage rates, cleaning tools manage schedules, and guidebooks manage guests. The information you need to operate — access codes, WiFi credentials, utility accounts, insurance policies, contractor contacts, appliance quirks — lives in none of them. It ends up scattered across spreadsheets, notes apps, and text threads.

That scattered layer is exactly what Keylodger exists for. It's not a PMS and doesn't try to be. It's a fast, searchable database of every operational detail across your portfolio: type a few characters, get the answer, copy it, done. Sensitive values stay hidden until you reveal them. It sits beside Guesty or Hostaway, not instead of them.

Bottom line

Pick a PMS that matches your portfolio size — Guesty for scale, Hostaway for growth, Hospitable for automation on a budget. Then close the gap they all share with a dedicated property information layer. Your 2 a.m. self, fumbling for a lock code while a guest waits outside, will thank you.