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Venice Guide by 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

Venice Guide by Civitatis.com

This comprehensive travel guide offers essential tourist information for your Venice trip. Discover what to see, where to eat and stay, and how to get around. It includes practical tips, a detailed map, and activity booking options to help you make the most of your vacation.

Highlights
  • General travel planning information
  • Attraction details and visiting tips
  • Dining recommendations and budget options
  • Accommodation area suggestions
  • Local transport guidance
  • Shopping area information
  • Interactive Venice map
  • Activity booking
Features
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This Venice 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 Venice, with a perfect combination of cultural, sightseeing, and entertainment options. You'll also find in this Venice guide practical information that will help you organize your trip to Venice, as well as tips and advice to make the most of your time in Venice. What to see in Venice? Where to eat, where to sleep? What are the places you really have to visit? Any tips to save money? Our Venice guide will answer all these and more. The most interesting sections of this free guide to Venice are: • General information: Learn how to plan your trip to Venice 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 Venice, 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 Venice. And why not do it for the best price? We tell you the best places to eat on a budget in Venice. • 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 Venice. • Transport: Find out how to get around Venice 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 Venice. • Map: The most comprehensive map of Venice, 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 Venice. • Activities: With our Venice 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 Venice. That's why, with this free travel guide, we want to help you fill your trip to Venice. 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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Venice Guide by Civitatis.com4 screens
Florence Travel & Audio Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Venice Guide by Civitatis.com at none against Florence Travel & Audio Guide's 4. Venice Guide by Civitatis.com also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Florence Travel & Audio Guide's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (30 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, 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. Venice Guide by Civitatis.com asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Venice Guide by Civitatis.com holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Venice Guide by Civitatis.com's written reviews are positive against 60% of Florence Travel & Audio Guide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Venice Guide by Civitatis.com ships an update every 6 weeks, Florence Travel & Audio Guide weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Venice Guide by Civitatis.com versus Florence Travel & Audio Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVenice Guide by Civitatis.comFlorence Travel & Audio Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better4.6 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings730 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size130 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCIVITATIS TOURS S.L.ZF s.r.l.

Customer experience

Venice Guide by Civitatis.com

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Venice Guide by 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 Venice Guide by Civitatis.com free?
Venice Guide by 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, Venice Guide by Civitatis.com or Florence Travel & Audio Guide?
Venice Guide by Civitatis.com is rated higher. Venice Guide by Civitatis.com averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Florence Travel & Audio Guide averages 4.6 from 30 ratings.
Do Venice Guide by Civitatis.com or Florence Travel & Audio Guide have ads?
Neither Venice Guide by Civitatis.com nor Florence Travel & Audio Guide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Venice Guide by Civitatis.com or Florence Travel & Audio Guide?
Venice Guide by Civitatis.com ships an update every 6 weeks, and Florence Travel & Audio Guide weekly. Most recently, Venice Guide by Civitatis.com was updated on October 20, 2026 and Florence Travel & Audio Guide on October 25, 2026.

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