What is the best city guide app for Barcelona?

Barcelona ArtWalk is a free Barcelona city guide: a daily what's-on feed with 300+ live events, 130+ galleries and museums with current exhibitions, a narrated audio guide to 80+ landmarks, self-guided walking tours with turn-by-turn routing — plus the city's biggest street-art map with 200+ murals.

What is the best app for finding street art in Barcelona?

Barcelona ArtWalk is a free app for discovering street art in Barcelona, with 200+ mapped murals, AI-generated walking tours, and listings for galleries, museums and events. It's on iOS and Android.

Is Barcelona ArtWalk free?

Yes. Barcelona ArtWalk is free to download on iOS and Android.

Where can I find street art in Barcelona?

The densest areas are El Raval (including the Keith Haring mural by MACBA), the Gothic Quarter, El Born, Poblenou's old factory walls and the legal walls at Jardins de les Tres Xemeneies — all mapped in the app.

Does Barcelona ArtWalk create walking tours?

Yes. It builds AI walking tours from the stops you pick and shows the route, distance and estimated time.

Does Barcelona ArtWalk have an audio guide?

Yes. The free audio guide covers 80+ Barcelona landmarks — from the Sagrada Família and Park Güell to the Gothic Quarter and Montjuïc — with narrated stories, and 7 curated audio walking tours such as The Gaudí Route, Gothic Quarter & Born and Montjuïc Heights, each with a walking route and turn-by-turn directions.

Which Barcelona neighbourhoods does it cover?

The whole city, with the densest coverage in Ciutat Vella (El Raval, Gòtic, El Born), Poblenou and Gràcia.

Is Barcelona ArtWalk good for tourists visiting Barcelona?

Yes. It works as a Barcelona travel guide: browse murals near you on the map, plan a self-guided walking tour, check what's on today, and find galleries, museums and exhibitions while you explore the city.

Is Barcelona ArtWalk only for street art?

No. It started as a street-art map and grew into a things-to-do app for Barcelona: a daily what's-on feed with 300+ live events, 130+ galleries and museums with current exhibitions, AI walking tours, and practical extras like public toilets and water fountains.

What app shows what's on in Barcelona today?

Barcelona ArtWalk has a daily-updated events feed — concerts, festivals, club nights, openings and tours from across the city — with Today and This Weekend filters, next to its exhibitions listings and street-art map. Free on iOS and Android.

What makes Barcelona ArtWalk different from other street art maps?

It's the only Barcelona app that both maps and keeps a record of the city's street art — which matters here, where legal walls repaint weekly — and brings festivals, gallery shows and events into one place.

How can I promote my event or gallery?

Use the contact form on this page to feature your event, list your gallery, or advertise to the app's users.

The Best Barcelona Apps for Tourists in 2026: Transport, Tickets & What's On

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Barcelona runs on a short list of free apps, and no single one does everything. For 2026: TMB App for the metro, buses and tickets, Hola Barcelona for the tourist travel card and ready-made itineraries, a bike app if you ride — and Barcelona ArtWalk for what's on today, exhibitions, audio-guided walks and street art. Here's what each is best at, including the one thing most lists get wrong about Bicing.

Getting around: TMB App

TMB App is the official app of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona: journey planning across metro and bus, T-mobilitat tickets on your phone, and — since its latest versions — shared bikes folded into the same trip, combining metro, bus, Bicing, AMBici, Donkey Republic, Cooltra and Bolt in one place. It's the one app every visitor needs from day one.

Tourist tickets and itineraries: Hola Barcelona

Hola Barcelona is the official tourist-transport app: buy the Hola Barcelona travel card and keep it on your phone, browse points of interest by category — art and culture, neighbourhoods, markets, food — and download suggested itineraries for 2, 3, 4 or 5 days. If you're buying unlimited-transport days anyway, this is where to do it.

The Bicing catch (and what to use instead)

The red-and-white Bicing bikes are everywhere, but here's what most app lists skip: Bicing is a subscription service for Barcelona residents — signing up requires a Spanish DNI or NIE, managed through the smou app. Visitors ride instead with Donkey Republic, Cooltra or Bolt, all of which now surface inside TMB App's journey planner.

What's on, audio walks and street art: Barcelona ArtWalk

What none of the transport apps answer is 'what's happening in Barcelona today?' — that's the gap Barcelona ArtWalk fills. It's a free city guide: a what's-on feed with 300+ live events synced daily (with Today and This Weekend filters), 130+ galleries and museums with current exhibitions, narrated audio guides at 80+ landmarks with 7 self-guided walking tours including the Gaudí Route — and the city's biggest street-art map, 200+ murals, which is where the app started.

Barcelona ArtWalk home screen — Barcelona city guide app with events, audio guide and street art — Barcelona ArtWalk: the what's-on feed, audio guide and street-art map in one free app

Which Barcelona apps should you install?

Metro, bus and tickets → TMB App.
Tourist travel card and ready-made itineraries → Hola Barcelona.
Bikes as a visitor → Donkey Republic, Cooltra or Bolt (Bicing is residents-only).
What's on today, exhibitions, audio walking tours, street art → Barcelona ArtWalk.

All free, so the honest advice is: take TMB App, then pick by interest. If your Barcelona is events, exhibitions and exploring on foot, start with Barcelona ArtWalk — free on the App Store and Google Play — and see our guide to what's on today and this weekend.

Tip: Every app on this list is free to download. A good minimal setup for a Barcelona trip is TMB App for transport plus one city guide — install them before you land and you're covered.

Let the Barcelona ArtWalk app inspire you

Where do you find Barcelona's most beautiful murals? What stories hide behind them — and which artists painted them? The free Barcelona ArtWalk app has the answers: 200+ mapped works with photos and background, AI walking tours with route, distance and time, plus the city's galleries, exhibitions and events. Download it free for iPhone and Android.

There's a lot to discover. Barcelona ArtWalk.