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Florence Guide Civitatis.com vs Florence Travel & Audio Guide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Florence Guide Civitatis.com

This free travel guide provides comprehensive information for visiting Florence. It covers attractions, dining, accommodation, transportation, and shopping, along with practical tips and a detailed map to help you organize your trip and make the most of your time.

Highlights
  • General travel planning information
  • Detailed attraction details
  • Restaurant recommendations
  • Accommodation area suggestions
  • Transportation advice
  • Shopping tips
  • Interactive map
  • Activity booking
Features
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This Florence guide is completely free and has been created by the Civitatis team, the leading company in the sale of guided tours, excursions, and free tours in English all over the world. So you can guess what you'll find there: all the tourist information you need to make the most of your trip to Florence, with a perfect combination of cultural, sightseeing, and entertainment options. You'll also find in this Florence guide practical information that will help you organize your trip to Florence, as well as tips and advice to make the most of your time in Florence. What to see in Florence? Where to eat, where to sleep? What are the places you really have to visit? Any tips to save money? Our Florence guide will answer all these and more. The most interesting sections of this free guide to Florence are: • General information: Learn how to plan your trip to Florence and find out what is the necessary documentation to visit it, what is the weather like at the time you're traveling, or what are the opening hours of its stores. • What to see: Discover the main attractions in Florence, as well as practical information on how to visit these tourist spots, how to get there, opening hours, closing days, prices, etc. • Where to eat: Learn more about the most traditional dishes in Italy and the best places to sample them in Florence. And why not do it for the best price? We tell you the best places to eat on a budget in Florence. • Where to stay: Are you looking for a quiet neighborhood to rest or a lively one to party until dawn? Our free travel guide will let you know in which area you should look for your accommodation in Florence. • Transport: Find out how to get around Florence and which are the best ways to move around depending on your budget or your time. • Shopping: Get the perfect souvenirs and save time and money by knowing in advance which are the best areas to go shopping in Florence. • Map: The most comprehensive map of Florence, where you can see all the must-see sights, where to eat, the best area to book your hotel, or the neighborhood with the greatest and liveliest atmosphere in Florence. • Activities: With our Florence guide, you can also book the best Civitatis activities for your trip. Guided tours, excursions, tickets, free tours... Everything to fill your trip! We know that when you're traveling, there's no time to waste. And even more, when there are so many things to do in Florence. That's why, with this free travel guide, we want to help you fill your trip to Florence. Have a blast and enjoy your vacation! P.S. The information and tips in this guide were written by and for travelers and were collected on January 2023. If you find any inaccuracies or find something you think we should change, please contact us (https://www.civitatis.com/en/contact/).

About

Florence Travel & Audio Guide

Navigate Florence with detailed offline maps, comprehensive travel content, and insider tips. Discover attractions, book hotels, and find restaurant reviews from other travelers. Plan your perfect trip with this all-in-one city guide.

Highlights
  • Detailed offline maps
  • In-depth travel content
  • Attraction and restaurant discovery
  • Hotel booking integration
  • User reviews and tips
  • Ticket purchasing for venues
  • Offline GPS navigation
Features
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Tickets and tours: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery and more. Hear the story of every sight with the audio guide and walk an itinerary planned on the time you have. In English and 10 other languages. TICKETS AND TOURS IN FLORENCE Entry tickets and guided tours: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Palazzo Pitti, Boboli Gardens and Medici Chapels, booked through GetYourGuide from the page of each place. Food tours and cooking classes, wine tours. Day trips from Florence: Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano and Cinque Terre. FLORENCE AUDIO GUIDE Tap "Listen" on any place of the guide and the app reads its story aloud, sentence by sentence, while you stand in front of it: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Pause, go back a sentence, change the speed. The audio guide speaks the language you read the guide in. FLORENCE ITINERARY BY THE TIME YOU HAVE Tell the app how much time you have and where you start, and it plans a walking itinerary through the sights of Florence: the stops in order, the walk between them in minutes, the route on the map. Follow it step by step, stop by stop. Or save the places you like and turn them into your own walk. MAP OF FLORENCE All the sights of Florence on one map, and where to eat, nightlife and shopping on layers of their own: the photos of the most famous ones, the others by name as you zoom in. Tap a place for its page, its tickets and the walking directions from where you are. THINGS TO DO IN FLORENCE 122 places to see, each with its story, photos and the tours that visit it: Accademia Gallery, Uffizi Gallery, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Palazzo Pitti, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Basilica of Santa Croce, Church of Santa Maria Novella and Museum, Bargello National Museum and many more. TRAVEL TIPS FOR FLORENCE 200 answers to the questions travellers ask before and during a trip to Florence, for example: • Tickets for Florence attractions • How to visit Florence with limited time • Best time to visit Florence's major attractions MORE IN THE GUIDE • Day trips near Florence • Local guides you can contact for a private tour • Weather for the next 7 days • Practical information: emergency numbers, holidays, getting around, safety • Hotels in Florence on Booking.com, for tonight, the weekend or your dates • My guide: save places with a tap and find them on the map FREE, OR PREMIUM The Florence guide, the audio guide, the map, the travel tips and a one-hour itinerary are free, with ads. Premium, a single purchase, removes the ads and adds longer itineraries, your own lists of places ("Day 1", "Day 2"), unlimited walking directions and the offline guide: the whole guide of Florence downloaded to your phone, to read without a connection.

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Florence Guide Civitatis.com4 screens
Florence Travel & Audio Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Florence Guide Civitatis.com at none against Florence Travel & Audio Guide's 4. Florence Travel & Audio Guide's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and ratings volume (30 vs 9). On price, rating, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Florence Travel & Audio Guide sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Florence Guide Civitatis.com asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Florence Guide Civitatis.com against 4.6 for Florence Travel & Audio Guide. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 30 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Florence Guide Civitatis.com ships an update monthly, Florence Travel & Audio Guide every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Florence Guide Civitatis.com versus Florence Travel & Audio Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlorence Guide Civitatis.comFlorence Travel & Audio Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (9 ratings)4.6 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews—60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings930 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCIVITATIS TOURS S.L.ZF s.r.l.

Customer experience

Florence Guide Civitatis.com

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral22.2%
Negative0.0%

Florence Travel & Audio Guide

All ratings30 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

None

Florence Guide Civitatis.com

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Florence Travel & Audio Guide

One-time4
  • Offline$3.99
  • Florence Offline Guide$7.99
  • Offline$11.99
Show 1 more
  • Offline$14.99

Questions

Is Florence Guide Civitatis.com free?
Florence Guide Civitatis.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Florence Travel & Audio Guide free?
Florence Travel & Audio Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Florence Guide Civitatis.com or Florence Travel & Audio Guide?
Florence Guide Civitatis.com and Florence Travel & Audio Guide are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 30 ratings respectively.
Do Florence Guide Civitatis.com or Florence Travel & Audio Guide have ads?
Neither Florence Guide Civitatis.com nor Florence Travel & Audio Guide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Florence Guide Civitatis.com or Florence Travel & Audio Guide?
Florence Guide Civitatis.com ships an update monthly, and Florence Travel & Audio Guide every 2 weeks. Most recently, Florence Guide Civitatis.com was updated on September 25, 2026 and Florence Travel & Audio Guide on October 17, 2026.

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