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About Pautia

Who is behind it, how it pays for itself, and what it does and does not do. Plainly, because this is about medication and there you want to know who you are dealing with.

1 · Who is behind it

My father had an operation and came out with a long treatment that changed every few days and was hard to keep in your head. At first I put together something very basic, just for us: a list that said what was due each day and that did not have to be redone from scratch every time the doctor adjusted a dose.

We soon saw that it was not just our problem. It happens to a lot of people: several medicines at once, schedules that change halfway through, and someone in the family who ends up carrying it all in their head. With what we know how to do —innovation, product and entrepreneurship— that homemade list stopped being a stopgap and became a project. Pautia came out of that.

Behind it is Eficatio, and Pautia is our own product: it is not commissioned by anyone and there is no pharmaceutical company behind it. The company's full details, including its tax identification, are in the legal notice.

And something worth saying plainly: we are not doctors, nor pharmacists, nor healthcare professionals of any kind. Pautia has not been reviewed or endorsed by any healthcare professional, and we are not going to claim otherwise to make a better impression. It is an organising tool, made by people who know how to build products and software, for a problem we lived with at home.

2 · What it is and what it is not

Pautia is for sorting out the treatments you have already been prescribed. You write down what your doctor or your pharmacist has told you, and the app takes care of spreading it across days and time slots and telling you what is due today, for you and for the people you look after.

What it does

  • Brings together on one screen every dose due today, from every treatment and every person.
  • Applies by itself the schedule changes you have entered, on the day they are due.
  • Tells you whose each dose is, with their own colour.
  • Produces a weekly schedule you can print.
  • Sends the reminders to your phone's calendar.
  • Creates a link so you can show a treatment to your doctor.

What it does not do, and is not going to do

  • It does not decide or recommend what to take, at what dose, or for how long.
  • It does not work out schedules. If you have been told "every 8 hours", it helps you lay those hours out; it does not decide how often anything should be taken.
  • It does not interpret prescriptions and does not warn about interactions between medicines.
  • It is not a medical device and does not replace the judgement of a healthcare professional.
  • It does not use artificial intelligence. The name comes from pauta, Spanish for a dosing schedule. The app organises and displays what you write down, and your treatments are not sent to any model or used to train anything.

If you have any doubt about a medicine, a dose or a time, ask your doctor or your pharmacist. And in an emergency, call the emergency number for your country (112 in Spain and across the EU). This is set out in full in the medical notice, which is worth reading in its entirety if you are going to trust it with someone's medication.

3 · How it is built

These decisions are not technical details: they change what can happen to your data.

  • No account. There is no sign-up, no password and no profile. We do not ask for your name, your phone number or your email address in order to use it.
  • Your treatments are stored on your device. There is no database of ours where they live. That also means that if you lose your phone without a backup, they are gone: which is why we insist so much about backups.
  • The backup is encrypted before it leaves. If you turn it on, it is saved in your own Google Drive, encrypted on your device: Google receives something it cannot read, and neither can we.
  • No advertising and no selling data. There are no ads inside the app or on this website.
  • No cookies. We count how many visits this website gets with a tool that stores nothing in your browser and cannot recognise you. Inside the app we count how often it is opened, with no identifier that could say whose, and it can be switched off in Settings; your treatments are not measured and never leave your device. It is all set out in the cookie policy.
  • It works offline. Once installed, it keeps working on the underground or in flight mode.

When you search for a medicine, the app queries CIMA, the public database of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS). Only the text you type to search is sent: never your treatments and never who takes them.

4 · How this is paid for

By subscriptions, and by nothing else. There is no advertising, no data sold, and no pharmaceutical sponsorship. If Pautia charges you, it is because that is the only thing keeping it going.

The first 15 days are free, with no card and no account. After that it is €1.99 a year, €4.99 for three years, or €49.99 as a single payment for life. The prices are on the home page and are final, with taxes included.

Being cheap is deliberate: this is used by older people and by families who already have enough expenses at the chemist's.

5 · What we commit to

These are not good intentions: they are written into the terms of sale, which is a contract.

  • Your data is not deleted, hidden or locked because you have not paid. Ever.
  • If your subscription expires, you have 30 days of grace in which everything stays the same. After that, the app becomes read-only: you can look things up, mark today's doses, produce the schedule and export everything. The only thing that is switched off is creating and editing treatments.
  • Exporting your data is always available, including with an expired subscription. Your information is never held hostage.
  • We email you before every renewal, and you can cancel whenever you like with no penalty.
  • Updates are included, at no extra cost.

6 · If something goes wrong

Pautia is software, and software fails. Reminders depend on your phone's calendar and may not arrive; a piece of data entered wrongly is displayed wrongly; an update can break something that was working.

That is why you should not use it as the only safeguard for a critical dose. Combine it with your own judgement and, if you need to, with another way of being reminded.

And if you find a bug, tell us: from inside the app, under SettingsBugs and suggestions, or by writing to hola@mipautia.com. If it is a bug that could affect someone's safety, write to us straight away and we will look at it the same day.

7 · How to talk to us

A person replies, not an automated form.

If your question is about using it —how to add a treatment, how to change a schedule, how to print the weekly chart— have a look first at the user guide: it is explained step by step and with illustrations.

One request. If you use Pautia to organise someone else's medication and there is something that makes it hard going, write to us even if it seems trivial. Almost everything that has improved in this app came from someone who took the trouble to say so.

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Written by Javier, from Pautia.
Last updated: 13 August 2026.