Touch Stay is a mature digital-guidebook platform with far more than page editing: its current product includes messaging, analytics, AI features, upsells and PMS integrations. Its price is a recurring subscription calculated from your use case, number of guides, currency and billing cycle. Cléo is a narrower proposition with a fixed publication price.
Side by side
| Cléo | Touch Stay | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | €29 one-time per published guidebook | Recurring subscription; exact amount from official calculator |
| Link + QR code, no app | ||
| Automatic translation of guest view | ||
| Google-powered local places | Autocomplete with photos, ratings and directions | Google Places recommendations and maps |
| Usage stats (views, scans) | ||
| PMS integrations & scheduled messaging | ||
| Public product examples without signup | ||
| No recurring publication fee |
Verification date: 29 July 2026. Method: we checked the vendors’ public pricing, product and support pages only. Prices are shown in the currency, billing period and tax basis displayed by the vendor; portfolio quotes and optional extras can change the total. “Not listed” means we could not verify the feature on those pages, not that the product can never provide it. Cléo publishes these comparisons and is therefore not a neutral publisher.
Official sources checked: Cléo public pricing; Touch Stay pricing calculator, canonical feature overview, Google Places guide, public examples and demo hub.
What Touch Stay does better
- Operational breadth: scheduled email and SMS, PMS integrations, guest management, upsells, multimedia and an AI chat agent are all documented on its product pages.
- Advanced access and communication options: Touch Stay advertises time-based access, guest-specific links and scheduled pre-arrival, check-in and checkout messages.
What you gain by switching
- A known advertised publication cost: Cléo’s current public pricing page says €29 once and “published for life”, instead of a total that depends on a recurring calculator.
- A listing-first workflow: Cléo can prefill a draft from a rental listing, then enrich selected places with Google data.
- A different visual treatment — compare the open examples rather than taking our opinion as evidence:
Live exampleAppartement Montmartre
Paris 18e · Visit →
Live examplePenthouse vue mer
Marseille · Visit →
Live exampleAppartement Vieille Ville
Annecy · Visit →
Real example guidebooks published with Cléo — open them just like a guest would.
Our verdict
Connected guest operations → Touch Stay. Fixed-cost guidebook → consider Cléo.
Touch Stay’s recurring model pays for a wider operational product, so reducing this to price alone would be misleading. If you actively use its integrations, messaging, AI or commerce tools, it may be better value. If you mainly need a phone-friendly guidebook and want a known one-time publication cost, test Cléo alongside a Touch Stay example.
Frequently asked questions
How hard is migrating from Touch Stay?
The time depends on the size of your existing guide and how many private topics, messages and integrations you use. Build and preview the Cléo version first; cancel nothing until you have checked every guest-critical instruction and replaced the old links and QR codes.
Is the Cléo dashboard in English?
The guest side translates automatically (English included). The host dashboard is currently French-first; browser translation is an available workaround.
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