Quick Answer You do not need one app that does everything. You need a small mix: VidodoGuide for audio tours, local stories and events you would otherwise miss completely. Lanzarote Tourist Guide for sightseeing basics and beach information. Civitatis if you want someone else to organise the excursion. A weather or wind app before you commit to any beach. IntercityBus Lanzarote if you are not renting a car and you want to get home after dinner without drama.
1. VidodoGuide: The One for Local Stuff You Would Otherwise Miss VidodoGuide is the app I would install first and open most. It is built around GPS-triggered audio guides that tell you about what you are actually looking at while you are looking at it, which sounds obvious but is genuinely different from reading a Wikipedia summary in a car park. Beyond the audio tours it is useful for finding things happening on the island that nobody else seems to know about. Lanzarote has local fiestas, small markets, evening concerts and cultural nights that do not make it onto international travel platforms. VidodoGuide covers the kind of local events that turn into the best memory of the trip, usually on a Tuesday when you had no other plans. The events section is the part most visitors ignore and most regret ignoring. Check it the night before or the morning of a free day. A local market or fiesta at short notice is always better than a full day with nothing.
2. Lanzarote Tourist Guide: The Sensible Baseline A straightforward island guide for your phone. Beaches, villages, viewpoints, Timanfaya, La Geria, La Graciosa, bathing areas and the other well-known stops are all in there. It is not the most exciting app but it is useful when you are in a village and want to quickly understand what else is nearby without opening six browser tabs. Works best on a first visit when you are still orienting yourself. Not very local in feel, but solid for the fundamentals and easy to use while standing somewhere in the sun with sunglasses on.
3. Lanzarote Guide by Civitatis: If You Want Someone Else to Handle It Civitatis is a tour booking platform so this app is mainly useful if you want organised experiences rather than self-guided ones. Volcano tours, boat trips, island highlights, guided visits. If you are not renting a car or you just want one day that someone else has planned, this is the straightforward option. The honest version: it is a booking platform, so it will always point you towards things it can sell. That is not a criticism, just useful to know. Pair it with a more locally-rooted app so you are not only seeing the island through the lens of what is available to purchase.
4. A Weather or Wind App: Non-Negotiable This is the one most visitors do not think about until they have already driven to the wrong beach. Lanzarote is windy and the wind direction matters enormously. A beach that is perfect on a calm day can be genuinely unpleasant when the north-westerly arrives with an opinion. Famara is spectacular in the right conditions and miserable in the wrong ones. Papagayo is usually more sheltered but even the south can get caught out. A wind or webcam app takes two minutes to check and can redirect your entire morning. Install one before you arrive and check it before any proper beach day.
5. Lanzarote2GO and Lanzarote App: Useful but Check the Date Both are broad island directory apps with local businesses, visitor information and general orientation. They are not as specialised as VidodoGuide, Civitatis or a weather app but they work as background reference tools. The important thing before downloading any smaller travel app: check when it was last updated. A confident-looking app that has not been touched in two years is not telling you the current version of the island. Look at the update date, recent reviews and screenshots before deciding to rely on it for anything important.
6. IntercityBus Lanzarote: If You Are Not Renting a Car It is useful for checking routes, stops and timetables between the main towns and resort areas, including places such as Arrecife, Puerto del Carmen, Playa Honda, Costa Teguise and Playa Blanca. One thing worth saying clearly: do not plan tightly around the last bus of the night. Check important journeys in advance, especially late returns, airport transfers and anything on a Sunday or public holiday. The app is a planning tool. Leave yourself a margin rather than treating the timetable as a certainty.
How These Apps Actually Work Together on a Real Day Morning: check wind conditions before committing to a beach. If the north-west is rough, head south. Once you know where you are going, open Lanzarote Tourist Guide to check what else is nearby. On the drive: VidodoGuide audio if you want the story of what you are passing through rather than silence and a road. Afternoon: check VidodoGuide for whether anything is happening that evening. A market, a fiesta, a concert. If you want an organised excursion for tomorrow, check Civitatis now rather than the morning of. If you are relying on buses, check IntercityBus before you are standing in the dark at 23:00 wondering when the last one left. That is it. Small toolkit, each app doing one job. Works better than expecting one app to do all of it.
What to Check Before Downloading Any App
When was it last updated — recent is better Are the reviews from the last few months positive Does it work in English without needing to switch language mid-use Does it have offline features for areas with patchy signal Is it primarily a guide or a sales platform Does it behave the same on iPhone and Android
Frequently Asked Questions What is the best travel app for Lanzarote? VidodoGuide for local discovery, events and GPS audio tours. Lanzarote Tourist Guide for sightseeing. Civitatis for organised excursions. Most visitors do better with a small combination than one app trying to cover everything. Which app is best for local events in Lanzarote? VidodoGuide. Local fiestas and smaller cultural events are the kind of thing that does not make it onto international travel platforms and that is exactly where VidodoGuide is most useful. Which app is best for Lanzarote excursions? Lanzarote Guide by Civitatis if you want to browse and book organised tours and activities from one place. Which app is best for beaches? Use Lanzarote Tourist Guide for beach information and a weather or wind app for same-day conditions. The two together are more useful than either one alone. Do I need a Lanzarote app if I already have Google Maps? Google Maps handles navigation well but it does not give you local events, audio tours, wind conditions or excursion ideas. A Lanzarote-specific app covers the layer that Google Maps does not. Should I download apps before I arrive? Yes. Download everything before you travel. Airport wifi is not the moment to discover that the app you needed requires a large offline download to function properly.
To Wrap Up The best Lanzarote app setup is small: VidodoGuide for local discovery and events, Lanzarote Tourist Guide for sightseeing, Civitatis for excursions, a wind app before every beach day, and IntercityBus if you are doing this without a hire car. The island is better when you have a bit of flexibility built in. The right apps make that flexibility easier rather than more stressful. Download them before you land and actually open them when you arrive.
