Briar vs Guesty

Side-by-side comparison of features, reviews, pricing and more

Briar

Category: Communication Tools
Industries: Business, Education

Pricing

Free

Guesty

Category: Communication Tools
Industries: Business, Education

Pricing

Free

20M+ Downloads
5/5

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Briar reviews

Probably the most secure messaging app out of any available, great idea! Unfortunately it will not be a good replacement for more popular messaging apps anytime soon. There is no way to send a video. Pictures are possible, but only in a chat with one other person and they get massively compressed. Pretty crazy in 2022. I love the idea of my messages not being routed through a central server, but it's not ready to replace my messaging app of choice. I'll check back in a few years.

- Richard

I would like to see a pop-up chat head. If I'm not looking at the screen I will miss the flash notification across the top. I have missed a reply for hours. I like adding the contact without using my phone number. I was using TextNow and Text free but the constant ads drove me crazy! I think this is a good app.

- Arthur Brenneman

This is probably one of the best messaging apps ever. I didn't even know a messaging app ever existed without using data . I installed this app into two phones and turned off Wi-Fi off for both of them and only left Bluetooth on. The app worked perfectly and no delayed text messages. I never knew that text messaging apps existed without ever having to use data or a Wi-Fi connection. I'm glad this technology exists because this would be very good in an emergency situations. Love this technology.

- WESTCOAST RONNIE

Guesty reviews

All in all: pretty terrible. Notifications delayed. Tapping notifications doesn't open them. App signs out, sometimes multiple times a day (usually every couple days). Just onboarded my portfolio with Guesty but the shakiness of the mobile app is making me take pause with continuing using the platform. Would be eager to see changelog/timeline of fixes. This level of functionality is unacceptable given the cost of service. Better yet--focus on making a responsive browser app experience.

- A Google user

Your new updated app DOES NOT WORK. I continue to have problems and cannot use my phone for my business with your app. I am so disappointed that all your new roll out improvments were obviously not beta tested well enough. This has cost me so much valuable time!!!

- Catherine Ventling

One of the main reasons I signed up with Guesty is because they have the app. But it's very basic and keeps crashing and doesn't show messages in real time, some never show up and some with a few hours delay which makes the communication with guests very difficult. Support is also another big issue. I can only contact Guesty by email and they don't reply for days/weeks and even then their reply is rarely helpful. Extremely bad value for money, I'll have to cancel them if they don't sort it

- A Google user

Pros & cons

Briar

Pros
Briar eliminates the danger of metadata spying
Multiple connection options bring versatility
No servers to shut down

Cons
Audits aren’t a guarantee
Could alienate the general populace
Tough to popularize

Guesty

Pros
Auto-messages, auto-replies, and auto-tasks
They have integrations with a lot of platforms
Easy to communicate

Cons
The integrations with the OTAs are pretty terrible
Ystem is overly buggy/poorly designed
It failed to properly import the bed types in my listings from AirBnB

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