About UltraGuest
UltraGuest is a free guestbook service. A guestbook is a page where the visitors to your website can leave a short public message for you, and where anyone can read what other people have written. Ours has been running since 2003.
It is free, and it is free in the plain sense: there is no paid tier, no trial, and nothing held back for money. Custom CSS, message approval, a word filter, blocked addresses, e-mail notifications, an RSS feed and a full export of everything you hold are all included. There are no advertisements on our pages or in any guestbook, we run no third-party trackers, and we do not sell or share what people write.
A guestbook in 2026?
Yes, and we notice the raised eyebrow. The web spent twenty years learning to measure people instead of listening to them: a like is a number, a follower is an asset, a comment section is a place to be ranked in. A guestbook does none of that. Someone read your page, felt something, and wrote you a sentence in a box. There is no algorithm deciding who sees it, no engagement to optimise, and nothing to scroll past it. It is the internet equivalent of a note pushed under the door, and it turns out people still like pushing notes under doors.
The people using UltraGuest today are not nostalgic for 2003; most of them were not there. They are building hand-written pages on Neocities and Nekoweb, shrines to games and bands, blogs that are nobody's product. They want a corner of the web that is theirs, and a guestbook is the part of it where other people get to speak. Social platforms gave everyone a megaphone and took away the doorstep; this is the doorstep.
There is a practical case too, and it is the boring one: a guestbook needs no account from your visitors, no app, no cookie consent, no moderation team. Someone can leave you a message from a library computer in one minute and never come back, and you will still have what they wrote in ten years. Try that with a comment box built on a platform that may be sold next spring.
We are not claiming it is the future of anything. It is a small, sturdy, slightly old-fashioned thing that works, and we intend to keep it working.
How it works
Your guestbook is a page here, at an address of its own, which you link to from your own site with one line of HTML. There is nothing to install and nothing to keep up to date, so it works the same on a hand-written HTML page, a blog, or a static host like Neocities. One login can hold up to ten guestbooks. Messages are plain text: web addresses are not allowed inside a message, because almost all guestbook spam exists to spread links, and visitors can leave their own website in a separate field instead.
Who runs it
UltraGuest is run by Andreas, who built it in 2003 and still looks after it. It is a small, deliberately unhurried service rather than a company chasing growth: one person, one server, and a support form that reaches a person. Questions go to the support page, and every guestbook page carries a link for reporting abuse.
What we do with what people write
The messages in a guestbook belong to the person who wrote them and to the owner of the guestbook, not to us. An owner can download everything we hold about them at any moment, as JSON or CSV, without asking. A guestbook is never deleted for being quiet: a page with eight messages from friends in 2006 is exactly the kind of thing we think is worth keeping, and it stays readable at the same address.
Everything posted is checked before it appears, by content rules and by an AI panel that reads each message in the context of its guestbook, because a free guestbook service is a target for spam and worse. What is and is not allowed is written plainly in the acceptable use policy; what we store and why is in the privacy policy.
The service in numbers
- Running since 2003, on the same domain.
- More than 60,000 guestbooks and over a million messages.
- Guestbook pages in 24 languages.
- No advertising, no tracking scripts, no paid tier, no data sales.
If you are comparing services, we keep an honest table of the free guestbook services still running, each described with facts from its own website and a source link, including the things other services do better than we do.