CleanClac vs Turno: which cleaning tool should you pick?

Cleaning between bookings is often the number one source of stress for a host: who is coming, when, with which checklist, and how can you check everything is spotless without being there? Two specialist apps address this need: Turno, the US pioneer formerly known as TurnoverBnB, and CleanClac, a European app designed for hosts and property managers. Both automate cleaning scheduling from your booking calendars, but they make different choices when it comes to proof, team management, and pricing. Here’s an honest, feature-by-feature comparison.

Two tools, one mission: automate cleaning between stays

Let’s start with what both apps have in common. Turno and CleanClac are built on the same insight: cleaning rotations can no longer be managed by SMS and spreadsheets. Both offer the same core features:

• Calendar sync with Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo: every guest departure automatically triggers a scheduled clean.
• Assignment to a cleaner (called “cleaner” on Turno) with mobile notification.
• Checklists to structure the job room by room.
• Integrated messaging between manager and cleaner.
• Issue reporting: damage, broken items, guest belongings left behind.
• Web and mobile apps (iOS and Android for Turno; web, iPhone and Android for CleanClac).

Turno claims over 9.7 million cleans completed via its platform (self-reported on turno.com), making it one of the most established players in the sector. CleanClac is newer and plays a different card: operational depth (timestamped proof, stock management, secure access codes) and team-friendly pricing. These differences are where your choice will really be made.

Calendar sync: iCal for everyone, PMS for the pros

Both products are strong on platform connectivity, so it’s a close match here.

Turno imports calendars from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and any platform via a generic iCal link, plus Google Calendar and Outlook. Its real strength: over 40 direct PMS integrations (Guesty, Hostaway, Hospitable, Lodgify, OwnerRez, Smoobu, iGMS, etc.), listed on its integrations page. If you use an international PMS, the connector probably exists.

CleanClac covers iCal sync with Airbnb, Booking and Vrbo (a guest departure creates a clean at the property’s default slot) and offers direct PMS connectors for Beds24, Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Smoobu and SuperHote. The list is shorter, but includes SuperHote, widely used in France, and Beds24, popular with independent European hosts. In both cases, the cleaning tool doesn’t replace your PMS: it plugs in and manages the operational layer. For a detailed guide to iCal, see iCal sync: Airbnb, Booking.com and your cleaning rota.

Verdict: Turno wins for number of integrations, it’s a tie for Airbnb/Booking hosts, CleanClac wins if your PMS is SuperHote or Beds24.

Checklists and cleaning proof: the clearest difference

This is where the philosophies really diverge.

Checklists

Turno offers photo checklists: task lists illustrated with photos, which the cleaner ticks off and documents. It’s efficient and popular with users.

CleanClac provides illustrated checklists per property, built from a catalogue of around 200 tasks organised by section: cleaning, finishing touches, linen, restocking, comfort and guest extras. Each property has its own checklist, and the cleaner works through it visually, task by task. For a manager wanting to standardise quality across several properties, this ready-made catalogue saves hours of setup.

Proof

Both tools offer end-of-cleaning photos, but not with the same level of guarantee.

With CleanClac, proof of completion is based on photos or video timestamped by the server, with digital file fingerprint and GPS location. In practice: neither the cleaner nor the manager can backdate or swap an image. In case of a dispute with a guest over cleanliness, or between a manager and their contractor, this traceability settles arguments. Added to this are on-site GPS check-in, actual cleaning duration with a “Overtime” flag if the estimate is exceeded, and a property condition rating on arrival (1 to 5 stars) given by the cleaner.

With Turno, photo checklists serve as visual proof of completion, which covers most needs, but the company does not mention server-side timestamping or systematic GPS fingerprinting.

Verdict: clear advantage to CleanClac for robust proof. If remote quality control is your priority, see Cleaning Quality Control: Always Require Photos.

Team and recruitment: mature marketplace vs unlimited free team members

Finding someone

Turno’s historic strength is its cleaner marketplace: over 126,000 short-term rental cleaners claimed worldwide (turno.com). The host posts a job, local cleaners apply with a quote, and the host chooses based on reviews from other hosts. In the US, marketplace cleaners undergo a background check. Density is highest in the US market; outside the US, it varies by area, with no official list of covered countries.

CleanClac offers a “Find a cleaner” feature near the property, free of charge, with a radius in kilometres. It’s a similar logic, on a younger, Europe-focused scale.

Managing your team

This is the other key difference. With CleanClac, team members are unlimited and free, for life: you pay per property, never per team member. A property manager running 10 cleaners and 3 seasonal backups pays not a penny more, and the Manager role lets you delegate a group of properties to a sector manager. With Turno, cleaners use the app without a subscription and co-host accounts are free; however, a property becomes billable as soon as an “external” cleaner (not from the marketplace) is assigned.

Verdict: Turno is best for fast recruitment in the US; CleanClac is best for structuring an existing team in Europe with no per-person cost.

Payments, stock, access: complementary features

Each tool has features the other doesn’t.

What Turno does that CleanClac doesn’t: integrated automatic payments. Turno pays cleaners in-app via Stripe, in 26 currencies, with autopay, tips and bonuses. For a host wanting everything handled in one place, it’s a real comfort. Caveats: card fees apply, low-cost ACH transfers are US-only, and a 5% commission is charged to cleaners for marketplace jobs (fee details).

What CleanClac does that Turno doesn’t highlight:

• Consumable stock management per property: product-level stock and threshold alerts, so you never discover there’s no toilet paper at 4pm on a Saturday. Turno lets cleaners report consumable levels, but without structured property-level tracking.
• Access code vault: key box codes, door codes and instructions sent only to the day’s cleaner, and only to them. No more codes floating around on WhatsApp.

For languages, it’s a tie for French speakers: 9 languages for Turno, 6 languages for CleanClac (FR, EN, ES, IT, PT, DE).

Ergonomics, screen by screen

A comparison table tells you what a tool can do. It does not tell you how long it takes to do it. So we opened both apps on the same phone, with an identical test property, and photographed four screens every manager goes through each week.

One point of honesty before you look: we build CleanClac, so this comparison is not neutral. The screenshots are: they come straight out of both apps, with no retouching beyond removing the phone status bar.

The property list

Turno

CleanClac

Turno displays metadata, CleanClac displays a state. On the first screenshot you read four numbers to identify a property you would recognise instantly from its bathroom. On the second, the information that triggers action, eight cleanings coming and low stock, is already on screen.

The morning home screen

Turno

CleanClac

The 63% bar measures how complete a form is, not how the operation is doing. It nudges you to finish a profile when you came to find out what is happening today. CleanClac answers the question you asked, and nothing else.

The team

Turno

CleanClac

On Turno, the team is an administrative list: checkboxes, statuses, pending invitations. On CleanClac, they are faces, with what they have done and a button to write to them. The difference shows on the morning you have to replace someone within the hour.

Property stock

Turno

CleanClac

Typing in thirty consumables by hand, naming each one and picking a tracking mode each time, is a solid hour per property. A pre-filled catalogue brings that hour down to minutes, which is exactly why stock ends up genuinely tracked instead of abandoned after a fortnight.

Turno is older and remains richer on two counts these screenshots do not contradict: its North American marketplace and built-in cleaner payments. They say something else that matters just as much day to day: the number of screens, fields and menus to cross before you get an answer is not in the same league.

Pricing: two billing models you need to understand

The billing models differ, so compare them for your real-life setup.

Turno (USD prices from turno.com/pricing as of August 2026): free for 1 property, and free for unlimited properties if you work exclusively with cleaners found via the Turno marketplace. As soon as you add your own external cleaners to 2 or more properties, it’s $10/month per property (or $96/year, i.e. $8/month). Depending on your usage, add card payment fees and the 5% marketplace commission for cleaners: the real cost depends a lot on your setup.

CleanClac: 14-day free trial with no card required and unlimited properties, then a single price per property: €9.99/month for 1 property, €14.99 for 2-3, €19.99 for 4-5, then +€4 per property beyond that (annual: €59.99, €89.99, €119.99, then +€24 per property). No team member fees, no commission on payments (CleanClac doesn’t handle payments). For 10 properties with your own team: €19.99 + 5 × €4 = €39.99/month, regardless of team size.

Verdict: Turno is unbeatable for a single-property host recruiting via the marketplace (free). CleanClac is clearer and often cheaper if you have your own team and several properties in Europe.

Which tool for which profile?

Here are the typical user profiles.

Turno is an excellent choice if:

• you are based in the US or Canada, where the marketplace is densest and integrated payments work best;
• you don’t have a cleaner yet and want to receive quotes quickly;
• you want to pay your cleaners in the same app that schedules the cleans;
• your PMS is among its 40+ direct integrations.

CleanClac is an excellent choice if:

• you are in Europe with your own team and don’t want to pay per member: team members are unlimited and free;
• you want solid daily proof: photos and videos timestamped by the server, GPS, geolocated check-in, impossible to backdate;
• you also manage consumable stocks and secure code sharing;
• you use SuperHote, Beds24, Smoobu, Lodgify, Hostaway or Guesty and want a cleaning layer that plugs in;
• you’re scaling up and delegating areas via the Manager role.

If you’re hesitating between several solutions, our selection method is here: Cleaning Management Apps: The Criteria That Matter. In all cases, test with your real properties and real team: free plan on Turno, 14-day trial with no card on CleanClac.