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About this project
Cicla highlights how the phases of the menstrual cycle influence daily life and women’s health, promoting self-awareness.
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Infrastructure
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Cicla fixed costs (2026 - 2028)
Payment of the annual fixed costs necessary to ensure Cicla’s continuity over the next three years: - Apple Developer Program: €99/year, - Domain cicla.es: €13/year, - Web hosting for cicla.es at Dinahosting: €79/year and - Bank fees at Abanca: €126/year
Covering these costs ensures that the app and website remain active, up-to-date, and accessible without relying on external investors or invasive advertising.
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£ 826 | |
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Goteo commission
10% commission (minimum goal) on card payments and for the Goteo Foundation.
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£ 43 | |
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Website development and maintenance (2019 - 2025)
Annual maintenance of Cicla’s website since the start of the project (purchase and renewal of domains, hosting services needed to host the site, security certificates, and email accounts associated with the project).
The website has been a key element for promoting Cicla, providing access to information about the menstrual cycle, and facilitating communication with the community.
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£ 437 | |
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Trademark Registration (2019)
Registration at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM)
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£ 143 | |
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Apple Developer Program (2021 - 2025)
Mandatory annual cost to publish, maintain, and update the Cicla app on iOS devices (Apple Store).
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£ 602 | |
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Management, legal compliance, outreach, and operational expenses (2019 - 2025)
Costs necessary for the legal, administrative, and operational management of the Cicla Association: mandatory insurance, bank fees, and administrative procedures.
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£ 566 | |
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Goteo commission
10% commission (optimal goal) on card payments and for the Goteo Foundation.
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£ 233 |
Material
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Training (2019 - 2021)
Specific training required for the development and improvement of Cicla, both at a technical level (Flutter programming course) and in content (Course on Menstrual Cycle, Training, and Health).
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£ 140 |
Task
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LAUS awards nominations (2021)
Cicla’s participation in awards and competitions within the creative, technological, and social sectors: LAUS Awards (Mobile Apps and Aporta categories), ADCE Awards, and IXA Competition.
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£ 434 | |
| Total | £ 869 | £ 3,424 |
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General information
We are Cicla, a women-led team that has been developing a mobile app dedicated to menstrual cycle knowledge since 2019, used by more than 25,000 women.
Cicla is a tool designed to understand how the different phases of the cycle influence daily life, health, well-being, and decision-making. We start from a key idea: the menstrual cycle is the fifth vital sign, as important for health as breathing or blood pressure.
Since its launch in 2021, Cicla has been developed as an independent project, without advertising or data selling, always placing users’ privacy and health at the center. On March 16, 2026, we launched a new version of the app and created this campaign to ensure its continuity and continue offering a free, ethical, and sustainable tool.
In total, we have invested over 1,400 hours of work:
- 400 hours of design
- 650 hours of development
- 200 hours of content writing
- 150 hours of testing
All this work results in a new version of Cicla with major improvements:
- New Patterns section to explore your menstrual cycle in detail
- Personalized recommendations in story format
- Available in Catalan, Galician, Basque, and English
- More educational content about the menstrual cycle
- Improved and more intuitive design
- Bug fixes and technical enhancements
Download Cicla on your mobile:
👉 If you use iOS, click here.
👉 If you use Android, click here.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
Cicla emerged from becoming aware of the lack of knowledge about the menstrual cycle, and therefore about our own bodies. This gap is not individual but social, and it has a direct impact on women’s health, well-being, and autonomy.
The project was born as a way to provide rigorous, accessible, and respectful knowledge, and as a call to recognize the place the menstrual cycle should occupy in today’s society, countering its historical invisibility and stigmatization.
🎖 Our commitments and values:
- Privacy and ethics: we do not sell data to third parties and never will; data is only used to improve the service.
- Created and led by women: grounded in empathy, personal experience, and care.
- Honest: we work with verified and up-to-date information.
- Reliable: when we request personal data or information (symptoms, sexual activity, etc.), it is to provide information and value back to the community.
Why this is important
We launched the first version of Cicla in December 2021 with the goal of being a free and openly accessible tool, regardless of each person’s economic resources.
Over these years, we have covered the costs of development, maintenance, branding, and communication with our personal savings. Today, to continue advancing and maintaining the new version of the app, we need the support of the community.
This campaign is aimed at everyone who uses, values, or believes in the need for ethical and independent menstrual health projects. Financial support will allow Cicla to keep growing without compromising its values.
You can also help us by spreading the project to more people through sharing Cicla in groups of friends, on social media, and in the press.
Cicla started as a project driven by two sisters and has grown into a team of 15 people with diverse and complementary profiles. Over the years, we have developed the project in our free time, balancing it with our personal and professional lives, and supporting it with our own resources.
This journey demonstrates our ability to design, develop, and maintain a functional mobile app with social impact, as well as our commitment to Cicla’s long-term continuity.
Currently, the team is organized into different work areas: Product, Content, Branding & Communication, and Strategy.
Social commitment
Gender Equality
The menstrual cycle is a hormonal process that accompanies women throughout their fertile years, approximately 30 years or around 500 menstrual cycles. Its importance for health is such that in 2015 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recognized it as the fifth vital sign, alongside body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate.
Despite this, menstrual health remains an area that is socially invisible and little addressed, even though it directly affects nearly half of the world’s population (49.6% of women in 2024, according to United Nations data). This lack of information and recognition has consequences for health, well-being, and autonomy.
Current apps on the market do not fill this information gap: most are limited to tracking bleeding or are primarily focused on reproduction, leaving aside a comprehensive approach to menstrual health.
Cicla was born as a response to this gap, committed to providing knowledge, education, and self-awareness, placing women at the center of all strategy, design, and decision-making within the project.
Sustainable Development Goals
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Good Health and Well-Being
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
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Gender Equality
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.