miDGT: your licence on your phone (and a lot more) 📱

Quick answer: miDGT is the DGT's official free app (iOS and Android). The essential bit: the digital driving licence shown in the app is valid before officers within Spain — you can leave the physical card at home inside the country. Plus: live points balance, vehicle documents (registration, ITV, insurance), fee payments, fine notifications and expiry alerts. Registration is with Cl@ve (permanent or PIN) or a digital certificate.

If your wallet still bulges with the licence, the registration document and the ITV card, the DGT has news: all of it fits on your phone, with legal validity in Spain, free. The miDGT app is one of the few government apps that genuinely saves time — here's everything it does and how to activate it in five minutes.

Everything the app does (table) ⚙️

Registering in 5 minutes 🔐

1. Download «miDGT» (publisher: Dirección General de Tráfico) from the App Store or Google Play — beware paid imitations.

2. Identify with Cl@ve: if you don't have it, activate it online with a certificate/DNIe or by video call; it's the same key for all Spanish administration.

3. Done: your licence, points and vehicles load themselves — the data comes straight from DGT records.

The digital licence works offline once loaded, but open the app now and then so it syncs.

Small print worth knowing 📌

Outside Spain the digital licence is not valid: travelling in the EU, carry the physical card (and beyond the EU, consider the €10.51 international permit). The digital permit also doesn't replace an expired card — renew on time. And the points feature is the safest way to watch your balance after a fine: how points are lost and recovered, in the points guide. No licence yet? Theory first — the official tests are here 😉.

miDGT vs the old-school wallet: when each wins 🥊

miDGT wins: at any check inside Spain (digital licence and registration with verifiable QR), for checking points after a fine, for paying a fee from the sofa, and for learning the ITV expires before it expires.

Plastic wins: crossing any border (the digital one is Spain-only), as backup when the phone dies at the worst moment, and at in-person procedures demanding the physical document. The sensible strategy: activate the app today and leave the card at home… inside Spain, with the phone charged.

Conclusion 🏁

miDGT is one of the few official apps that earns its home-screen spot: licence, points, vehicles and fees in one place, free, with no middlemen charging for what the DGT gives away. Activate it with Cl@ve in five minutes — and if the licence you want on your phone doesn't exist yet, start at the beginning: the theory, with TraficoTest.