# UltraGuest

> UltraGuest is a free guestbook hosting service that has run since 2003. A guestbook is a page where visitors leave short public text messages for the owner of a website; UltraGuest hosts that page, and the owner links to it or shows it inside their own page. There is no paid plan and no advertising.

## Key facts

- Free: no fees, no paid plan and no feature held back for money. Free since 2003. No advertising, no tracking cookies and no sale of data.
- A guestbook is a page hosted at ultraguest.com. The owner links to it, or shows it inside their own page with an iframe embed: one line of HTML, no script to install. It works on any website, blog or static host, Neocities included.
- Messages are text only: up to 1,500 characters, with smilies and simple formatting. Links and HTML are not allowed in a message, and visitors cannot upload images or files. Visitors need no account; they pass a human-verification check (Cloudflare Turnstile).
- Every message is checked before it appears, by automatic content rules and AI moderation. Owners can also approve new messages first, use a word filter and block addresses.
- Owners can edit, hide, delete (a trash keeps deleted messages for 30 days) and reply to messages, keep private messages, and get e-mail notifications and an RSS feed. Only the owner replies; visitors cannot reply to each other.
- It is a guestbook, not a comment system: one page of messages for the whole site, not a discussion under every post or page.
- A visitor can remove their own message with a private link shown once, right after signing.
- Owners see the country a message was written from, never the visitor's IP address. UltraGuest keeps the address only to prevent abuse and to meet legal duties, and deletes it 12 months after the message was posted (longer only while it is evidence).
- Owners can export everything (JSON, CSV or one web page), import messages from SmartGB, Atabook or a CSV file, and delete their guestbook at any time.
- Colours, fonts, a header text and full custom CSS; guestbook pages in 24 languages; up to ten guestbooks per account. Owners must be 16 or older.
- An independent, privately run project, operated from the United States. Contact: support@ultraguest.com.

## The service

- [Home](https://www.ultraguest.com/): What UltraGuest is, who it is for and how to sign up.
- [Features](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/): What a guestbook can do, with a page for each feature.
- [Sign up](https://www.ultraguest.com/signup/): Create a free guestbook with an e-mail address and a password; the address is confirmed by a link.
- [Support](https://www.ultraguest.com/support/): The support form. A person reads every message, usually within a day or two.
- [About](https://www.ultraguest.com/about/): Who runs UltraGuest and how: a free service since 2003 with no ads, no tracking and no paid tier.
- [What's new](https://www.ultraguest.com/whats-new/): New features, newest first. Fixes are not listed.
- [Contact](https://www.ultraguest.com/contact/): How to report a message or a guestbook, the address for authorities and notices of illegal content, and the support form.
- [Languages](https://www.ultraguest.com/languages/): The languages guestbook pages are available in, and how to help translate one.

## Features

- [Embed](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/embed/): Show the guestbook inside your own page with one line of HTML (an iframe), with no script to install.
- [Customize](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/customize/): Colours, fonts, a header text and full custom CSS.
- [No Spam](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/no-spam/): The checks every post passes: human verification, no links, rate limits, content rules and AI moderation.
- [Manage Messages](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/manage-messages/): Edit, approve, hide, reply to and delete messages; private messages; notifications; downloads.
- [Smilies](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/smilies/): The row of smilies under the message box, and how to switch it off.
- [Backups](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/backups/): Nightly encrypted backups on our side, and your own copy as JSON, CSV or a web page.
- [Security](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/security/): HTTPS, hashed passwords, single-use links instead of e-mailed passwords, safe forms and content scanning.
- [Support](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/support/): How to get help: the support form, the guides and the FAQ.
- [Reliability](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/reliability/): Hosting guestbooks since 2003: monitoring, nightly backups and current software.
- [Speed](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/speed/): Small pages without ad scripts or trackers, delivered through Cloudflare.
- [Privacy](https://www.ultraguest.com/features/privacy/): No ads, no tracking, no data sales; export and deletion in the owner's hands.

## Guides and answers

- [Guides](https://www.ultraguest.com/guides/): The guides, the FAQ and the comparisons in one place.
- [Add a guestbook to your website](https://www.ultraguest.com/guides/add-a-guestbook-to-your-website/): Step by step from sign-up to moderation: link code, embed, colours, options and notifications.
- [Guestbook moderation and spam](https://www.ultraguest.com/guides/guestbook-moderation-and-spam/): How spam and abuse are handled: what every guestbook gets automatically and what owners can switch on.
- [A guestbook on a free Neocities site](https://www.ultraguest.com/guides/guestbook-on-neocities/): Adding a guestbook to a free Neocities site, with the exact code to paste.
- [FAQ](https://www.ultraguest.com/faq/): Short answers on cost, embedding, moderation, replies, exports, deleting data and privacy.

## Terms and policies

- [Terms of Service](https://www.ultraguest.com/about/terms-of-service/): Owners must be 16 or older; what is allowed, how the automatic moderation works and how to contest a decision.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.ultraguest.com/about/privacy-policy/): What is stored about owners and visitors, for how long, who processes it and how to use your rights.
- [Cookie Policy](https://www.ultraguest.com/about/cookie-policy/): The few cookies the site needs, and the optional visit statistics that use no cookies.
- [Privacy commitments](https://www.ultraguest.com/about/privacy-commitments/): The promises: no ads, no tracking, no data sales, and export and deletion in the owner's hands.
- [Acceptable use](https://www.ultraguest.com/about/acceptable-use/): What may be posted, what is removed and why, how to report abuse and how to contest a decision.

## Optional

Comparisons with other guestbook services, built from what those services and their communities say publicly, read in September 2026, with the sources named.

- [Compare](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/): Every comparison, each built from public statements read in September 2026, with the sources named.
- [UltraGuest vs SmartGB](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/smartgb/): Cost and ads, themes and custom CSS, replies, moderation, languages and limits.
- [UltraGuest vs HTML Comment Box](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/html-comment-box/): A hosted guestbook page next to an embedded comment widget.
- [Free guestbook services compared](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/free-guestbook-services/): Eleven free guestbook services in one table, with a source for each.
- [UltraGuest vs Atabook](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/atabook/): Cost and the Supporter plan, ads, hosted page, custom CSS, replies, moderation, import and export.
- [UltraGuest vs Bravenet Guestbooks](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/bravenet/): Cost and plans, ads, embed code or link, HTML in posts, replies and inactivity rules.
- [UltraGuest vs Webweav.ing](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/webweav-ing/): The 32-Bit Cafe's Webweav.ing next to a hosted guestbook page: cost, ads, embedding, moderation, replies.
- [UltraGuest vs Website Goodies](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/website-goodies/): Cost, ads, hosted page, colour settings, moderation, spam protection and languages.
- [Guestbooks and comment systems](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/comment-systems/): When a comment system is the better tool and when a guestbook is.
- [Hosted or self-hosted guestbooks](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/self-hosted-guestbooks/): Guestbook scripts you install yourself next to a hosted service: who should self-host.
- [Guestbooks for Neocities and other static hosts](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/guestbooks-for-neocities/): Which guestbooks work on a free Neocities site and other static hosts.
- [What happened to 123Guestbook, MyGB.nl and others](https://www.ultraguest.com/compare/what-happened-to/): Guestbook services that have closed, what we found at each address, and how to keep your messages.

## Contact

- E-mail: support@ultraguest.com
- Support form: https://www.ultraguest.com/support/