Quick Answer
Choose Civitatis if you mainly want to browse and book organised excursions, guided tours, tickets and activities. Choose Vidodo Guide if you prefer to hire a car, explore independently and listen to GPS-triggered stories as you travel, while also having access to local events and places to discover.
For some holidays, using both makes sense. You could explore independently with Vidodo one day and use Civitatis to book an organised boat trip or excursion the next.
What Is Civitatis Lanzarote Guide?
Civitatis is an international platform specialising in tours, excursions, activities, tickets and transfers. Its dedicated Lanzarote Guide app contains practical destination information: what to see, where to eat, where to stay, transport, shopping and a Lanzarote map, alongside Civitatis activity booking.
The wider Civitatis Lanzarote marketplace currently lists 54 excursions and activities, including Timanfaya trips, La Graciosa excursions, island tours and other organised experiences. Civitatis makes particular sense when you want somebody else to organise the experience. Choose an excursion, book your place and follow the programme provided by the operator.
What Is Vidodo Guide?
Vidodo Guide is a Lanzarote-based travel platform aimed at independent travellers. It combines GPS audio routes, navigation, island events, local discoveries and bookable experiences. Its self-guided routes use location-triggered audio, so stories begin as you reach relevant points rather than requiring you to stop and read information from your phone.
Routes can be downloaded before you leave your accommodation. The audio, map and navigation then work offline. The basic idea is simple: you still have guidance and context, but you decide the timetable.
The Main Difference: Organised Tour or Independent Exploring?
Imagine you want to explore Timanfaya, La Geria and the volcanic south-west of Lanzarote. With Civitatis, you can look for an organised excursion, check its itinerary and book a place. With Vidodo Guide, you would choose a self-guided route and travel in your own car. Navigation guides you between stops, while location-triggered audio provides the stories and context along the way.
The difference is straightforward. Civitatis: organise the excursion for me. Vidodo Guide: help me explore it myself. Neither is automatically better. It depends on how you like to travel.
Which Is Better If You Have a Hire Car?
If you have a hire car and enjoy exploring independently, Vidodo Guide is the more directly relevant product. Its routes are designed around driving, automatic GPS audio and flexible stops. You can leave later, stop for lunch, spend longer at a viewpoint or change your plans without worrying about holding up a group.
That freedom matters on Lanzarote specifically because the interesting villages, viewpoints and volcanic landscapes often sit between the major attractions rather than at them. The drive through La Geria is the experience, not just the route to the next stop.
Do not treat the drive between Lanzarote's attractions as wasted time. Some of the island's best scenery is on the road between the places you originally planned to visit.
Which Is Better If You Don't Want to Drive?
If you do not want to hire a car, Civitatis becomes more useful. Its Lanzarote marketplace contains numerous organised excursions, including tours covering Timanfaya, Jameos del Agua and other major attractions. Some experiences last most of the day, meaning you can see several places without planning the transport yourself.
Vidodo's events and local-discovery features can still be useful without a car, but its driving routes naturally become less central. If your question is which excursions can I book, Civitatis is the more specialised tool.
What About Audio Guides?
GPS-triggered audio is central to Vidodo Guide. As you travel along a route, the app starts relevant stories automatically when you approach a stop. You do not press play and you do not read from a screen while driving. It simply starts when you arrive somewhere relevant.
Civitatis's current Lanzarote Guide description focuses on destination information, maps, transport advice, places to eat and activity booking. GPS-triggered Lanzarote audio routes are not presented as a core feature in its current app listing. If the reason you want an app is to understand what you are looking at while driving around Lanzarote, that is an important distinction.
Which Is Better for Finding Lanzarote Events?
Vidodo Guide has a dedicated island events element covering markets, concerts, cultural activities and other local happenings. Its website says the events calendar is updated regularly, alongside recommendations for restaurants, beaches and other places.
Civitatis's Lanzarote Guide focuses more on permanent travel information and bookable tourism activities. A current local-events calendar is not listed among its main guide sections. That difference matters if you want to know not only what attractions exist, but what is happening while you are actually on the island.
Which Has More Organised Tours?
For organised excursions, Civitatis has the much larger visible marketplace. At the time of checking, its Lanzarote page displayed 54 excursions and activities, including La Graciosa sailing, Timanfaya tours and combined island sightseeing trips. Some have thousands of customer reviews.
Vidodo also includes bookable activities, but activity booking is one part of a broader product that also includes GPS routes, events and local discovery. If your main question is which excursions can I book, Civitatis is the more specialised tool. If your question is how can I explore Lanzarote myself today, Vidodo is more closely designed around that need.
Are the Apps Kept Up to Date?
Update information varies by platform so it is best not to draw broad conclusions from one app-store date. Civitatis's Google Play listing showed an update on 6 May 2026, including a guide-data update, while its current Apple listing still displays older version-history information. Because app versions can differ between iOS and Android, check the latest store listing before downloading either travel app. For information that changes frequently, particularly events, confirm details close to the day you plan to attend.
Can You Use Both Together?
Yes. They are not mutually exclusive. You might use Vidodo Guide for self-drive days, discovering places and listening to GPS audio as you travel, then use Civitatis for a particular organised excursion you would rather not arrange yourself. That combination works particularly well if you enjoy independent travel but do not want to organise every single activity yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions Is Lanzarote Guide by Civitatis free?
Yes. The Lanzarote Guide by Civitatis is currently listed as a free app. Tours, excursions and other activities booked through it are separately priced.
Is Vidodo Guide free?
Vidodo Guide can be downloaded free, and its current website says the app includes a free GPS route plus access to its Discover content. Additional routes can be purchased separately.
Which is better for guided excursions?
Civitatis is more focused on organised tours, excursions and activities and currently offers a considerably larger visible marketplace of bookable Lanzarote experiences.
Which is better for exploring Lanzarote by car?
Vidodo Guide is designed around self-guided driving routes, GPS-triggered audio and navigation, so it is particularly relevant if you have a hire car.
Does Vidodo Guide work offline?
Yes. Vidodo says downloaded routes can use their audio, route map and navigation offline.
Does Civitatis have a Lanzarote guide as well as tours?
Yes. Its standalone Lanzarote Guide includes sightseeing information, restaurants, accommodation areas, transport, shopping, maps and activity booking.
Should I download both?
You can. They solve different problems. Civitatis is particularly useful for browsing organised excursions, while Vidodo is designed for independent exploration with GPS audio and local event discovery. Most visitors would find at least one of them genuinely useful.
To Wrap Up
Civitatis and Vidodo Guide are not simply two versions of the same app. Civitatis is particularly useful when you want to find and book an organised experience. Vidodo Guide is designed to help you explore independently without losing the stories, navigation and local context that you would normally expect from a guide.
A simple way to remember the difference: Civitatis helps you find someone to take you around Lanzarote. Vidodo Guide helps you take yourself around Lanzarote while still having a guide with you.
If fixed departure times and group itineraries are not your style, download Vidodo Guide free on the App Store or Google Play. Choose a GPS audio route and explore Lanzarote on your own schedule.
