FemQQ is built by Gotthilf Digital, the software division of Dr. Gotthilf — a family pharmaceutical house that started as a Berlin pharmacy in 1927. This page is where it came from and what that is worth to you.
What we take the most pride in is an almost century-long existence. Our beginnings were small and humble.
A pharmacist named Arthur Gotthilf opened a pharmacy in Berlin in 1927 and went into business with his two sons. The company was bombed flat in the war and rebuilt from nothing in 1947. It spent the decades after that becoming one of Germany’s main pharmaceutical distributors, and it never stopped being a family business. FemQQ is the newest thing it makes, and the oldest subject it knows.
Six moments, in order.
A pharmacist named Arthur Gotthilf started a family business with his two sons, Wolfgang and Thomas. They called it Gotthilf Pharma and made creams, capsules and tablets for medical purposes. The full company history →
The pharmacy was destroyed during the Second World War, as most businesses of the period were. Nothing about the years that followed was easy.
Two decades after it first opened, the pharmacy reopened and grew into an international distributor of pharmaceutical goods — including for global names such as Boehringer, still a market leader today.
By then one of Germany’s main pharmaceutical distributors, with the business extended into the Middle East.
The house opened a software division — an extended arm of a long history, built so that a pair of brand new eyes could look at what we make and who we make it for. See the division →
The first consumer product out of that division: the same subject the house has formulated for since the beginning, in the one place a woman actually keeps it.
Because the product was never really the tablet. For most of a century the way to help a woman with her iron was to formulate it, box it and hope the leaflet reached her. What a box cannot do is know what she ate today, where she is in her month, or whether she is pregnant — and those are the things that decide what she actually needs. Software can. So in 2024 the company opened a division to build it: not a marketing channel for the supplements, but the same expertise in a form that answers back. FemQQ reads a photograph of a meal, moves her calorie budget with her cycle, and scores the nutrients this house has spent decades on. That is the transformation — same subject, new instrument.
Heritage is only worth printing if it shows up in the product. Here is where it does.
Iron, folate, myo-inositol, vitamin D — the nutrients FemQQ’s rings are built from are the ones this house has been putting in boxes for women for decades. The app did not pick them because they test well.
FemQQ carries four target tables — adult, pregnant, breastfeeding, 51 and over — and scores every nutrient against the right one. That is a pharmacopoeial habit, not an app feature.
No white-label app, no outsourced backend. The product is built and operated under the same standard of care as everything else that leaves the company.
A photo estimate is an estimate and the app says so; the before-and-after images on the home page are labelled as illustrations because FemQQ has no customer results yet. Heritage is a reason to be careful with claims, not a licence to make bigger ones.
It would be easy to let “founded 1927” do work it has not earned, so to be explicit: FemQQ is a nutrition and wellness tool. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent or monitor any condition, it is not a medical device, and nothing on this page means it has been assessed or approved by anyone. The app is published by Dr Gotthilf LLC, a Wyoming company — the 1927 history is that of the family business it comes out of, not of the publisher. Nutrition is one input among many, and it is not a substitute for your doctor or your midwife.
FemQQ is published by Dr Gotthilf LLC. The 1927 history on this page is that of the Gotthilf family pharmaceutical business in Berlin, from which the company and its software division come; it is background, not a statement about this app. FemQQ is a nutrition and wellness tool. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent or monitor any condition, it is not a medical device, and it is not a substitute for medical care. Talk to your doctor or midwife about what is right for you.