15 Smartphone Audio Tours in France to Download First

1.Orsay Museum Entry Ticket and Digital Audio Guide App

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 3,170 reviews · 1 day · from $31Our pick

Enter the Musée d’Orsay on your chosen day with a flexible ticket, then explore at your own pace using a separate audio guide app. The museum covers French art from 1848 to 1915, with famous works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Cézanne, and Van Gogh. Bring headphones and download the app before arrival.

“Loved it but too crowded. Really enjoyed the variety of pieces and how displays were organised.”

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2.Caen: Memorial Museum Entry Ticket & Optional Audio App

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 272 reviews · 1 day · from $24

Spend a full day at Caen Memorial, tracing Europe from the end of World War I through the fall of the Berlin Wall. See wartime objects, documents, films, D-Day displays, and three memorial gardens. Add the multilingual audio guide app if you want help navigating the large museum on your phone.

“I thought I had purchased the audio guide and was disappointed to find out I hadn’t. The description on the website was not clear.”

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3.Paris Orsay Museum Entry Ticket with Digital Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 93 reviews · 3 to 4 hours (approx.) · from $36

Enter Paris’s Musée d’Orsay with a flexible admission ticket and a phone-based audio guide covering more than 300 works in 14 languages. You set your own pace across Impressionist and Post-Impressionist galleries, but bring earphones and download the app before arriving. The audio service is separate from the museum’s paid headset guide.

“We went in the afternoon. We liked not having a timed ticket. We could go anytime we wanted! Very busy inside in September, but we were able to get inside with no problems.”

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4.Rodin Museum Ticket & Optional Digital AudioGuide App

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 56 reviews · 1 day · from $23

Enter the Rodin Museum at 77 Rue de Varenne and spend the day exploring Hôtel Biron, Rodin’s former home and studio, plus its sculpture-filled gardens. See The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, early plasters, later works, and pieces linked to Camille Claudel. The optional app offers commentary in 12 languages, but you need your own headphones and phone.

“L'audioguide pas toujours pertinent... l'audiovisuel guide ne couvre pas les jardins”

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5.Strasbourg Walking Tour with Audioguide on Your Smartphone

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 42 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $6

Use the TouringBee app to walk Strasbourg at your own pace, from Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux and Petite France to the cathedral and Musée Alsacien. You get 33 short audio recordings, photos, an offline map, and one year of access. Narration includes history, anecdotes, and practical directions, but no human guide.

“Internet connection is important. Strasbourg is a beautiful city! The cathedral is worth seeing as well as the buildings from past glory days.Auto-translated”

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6.Musee De L’Armee Ticket With Digital Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 39 reviews · 1 day · from $35

Visit Paris’s Musée de l’Armée at Les Invalides with a one-day entry ticket and multilingual audio guide on your charged smartphone. You’ll see armor, weapons, uniforms, artwork, and Napoleon’s tomb beneath the famous dome. The museum is self-guided, wheelchair accessible, and best suited to visitors who want several hours to explore at their own pace.

“Don’t bother with the audio guide or book this experience … just go and buy the tickets there. Not worth the value. It is a beautiful museum and worth the visit. Save your money.”

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7.Paris Audioguide – TravelMate app for your smartphone

★★★★★★★★★★4.1 · 27 reviews · from $3Best value

Use the TravelMate app as your personal Paris guide, with 93 professionally produced audio tracks covering the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Montmartre, Versailles, and more. Listen in seven languages, read each script, play city quizzes, and return to the content for up to 1,095 days after activation.

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8.Colmar Walking Tour with Audioguide on Your Smartphone

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 22 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $8

Walk Colmar’s Old Town with a TouringBee audio guide on your phone. A professional historian narrates 27 stops in English, from the House of Heads and St. Martin’s Church to Little Venice. The app includes photos, GPS directions, an offline map, and one year of access. Bring your own phone and headphones.

“Great experience. We liked the stories and that we can do this tour in our own pace. In the app we had the map, Gps navigation and photos and audio descriptions of the places. I especially like that on this way we don't need to contact guide or somebody. Really very well done”

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9.Louvre Paris Tour with Audioguide on Your Smartphone (no ticket)

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 20 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $5

Explore the Louvre independently with TouringBee’s smartphone audio guide. The app offers 45 commentaries, exhibit illustrations, a 3D route map, and one-year access in your chosen language. Plan to buy the €22 museum ticket separately, bring headphones, and allow about two and a half hours for the suggested route.

“It was not usable, very complicated to install and in the end I couldnt enter the Code. Better buy a audioguide directly at the louvre. It costs the same”

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10.Montmartre Paris Walking Tour with Audioguide on Your Smartphone

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 17 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $8

Follow a 90-minute self-guided route through Montmartre using your phone, headphones, and an offline map. Hear 18 English recordings about Picasso, Dalida, the Moulin Rouge, Place du Tertre, La Maison Rose, Sacré-Coeur, and local legends. There is no human guide, so you control the pace and pauses.

“This was a very good tour. The English speaking was clear and easily understood. The sights were entertaining with easy directions from place to place.”

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11.Carcassonne Walking Tour with Audioguide on Your Smartphone

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 15 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $8

Walk from the Canal du Midi to the medieval Cité, Pont Vieux, Basilique Saint-Nazaire, and Château Comtal with 19 recordings by a professional historian. The TouringBee app provides an offline route, landmark images, and one year of access. Bring your own smartphone and headphones. No human guide is present.

“Download the content just before you start. Having another map handy helps too. I used Google maps but you can get a free paper map from the tourism office. The content of this tour is excellent and I’d recommend as a good way to familiarise yourself with the area. The historical content, very interesting. I’ll be using the app associated with this tour again.”

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12.Paris Street Art, smartphone audioguided tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 15 reviews · from $11Top rated

Follow a GPS-guided street-art walk from Place d’Italie to Rue Dunois in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Rewind’s app explains murals by Zabou, OBEY, D*Face, C215, Invader, and others as you reach them. Walk at your own pace, pause for a café stop, and use the live map if you turn the wrong way.

“Je ne m’attendais pas à voir des fresques si gigantesques dans Paris. Elles sont magnifiques !! La voix du guide décrypte chaque œuvre automatiquement pile quand on passe devant, c’est génial. Ravi également d’en avoir appris plus sur l’histoire et les coulisses du street-art. Et cerise sur le gâteau, la visite est accessible 24h/24, 7j/ 7 !”

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13.Lyon Walking Tour with Audioguide on Your Smartphone

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 14 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $8

Follow a three-hour self-guided route from Place Bellecour through Lyon’s churches, traboules, museums, Roman remains, Fourvière hill, and the Rhône. TouringBee provides 29 historian-narrated recordings, an offline map, landmark images, and one year of access. Bring your own phone and headphones. No human guide or transport is included.

“Molto interessante aggiungerei però il nome della via/piazza dove si trova il monumento in descrizione”

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14.Mysteries & Legends, smartphone audioguided walking tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 13 reviews · from $11

Follow a self-guided Rewind audio walk from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel to Notre-Dame. Your phone triggers stories near the Louvre, Pont des Arts, Pont Neuf, and Île de la Cité. Plan for 60 to 90 minutes, move at your own pace, and pause for a café stop before continuing.

“Had trouble downloading it. Then it was difficult to navigate with it and listen to the stories as you HAD to be I the specific location.”

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15.Paris Jewish Quarter Marais Smartphone GPSAPP Audio Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 11 reviews · 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $7

Use your smartphone to follow an English GPS audio tour from the Mémorial de la Shoah through the Marais Jewish Quarter. Hear stories of Jewish-French life, visit outdoor landmarks, spot historic food shops, and finish at the Anne Frank Garden. Go at your own pace, pause freely, and replay the tour without an expiration date.

“It was a very informative tour. Easy to follow. Highly recommend. The narrator had a nice voice and was easy to follow”

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