A kinder way to fight Ed, together.
We're Carah and Asa Gilmore, and we built Let's Kill Ed because we needed it ourselves. We've watched someone we love fight an eating disorder, and we know how exhausting, isolating, and frightening the day-to-day of recovery can be. We made the tool we wished we'd had — and we're sharing it with you.
Why we made this
We wanted to help families and caregivers support a loved one through recovery with tools that feel intuitive and gentle — not clinical, and never like the diet apps that can do real harm. Everything we build, we build for the people doing this work at home.
Why we call it "Ed"
Naming the eating disorder "Ed" let us separate the condition from the person we love. It's a small shift that changed everything for us — less blame, less shame, and a sense that we were all on the same side, fighting Ed together.
Our logo carries the same idea. For a while, the people we love who struggled with Ed called it "The Weasel" — and that's where the eyes come from. The sword is the more obvious part: this app is a tool to fight with. And, more quietly, the shape spreads into a butterfly with its wings open — our symbol of hope and recovery.
Who it's for
Parents and caregivers — the people doing the daily, often invisible work of recovery at home. People like us.
Privacy, because we get it
This data is some of the most personal there is — we feel that in our own family. So we built the app to keep all of it in your own Google Drive. We never receive, transmit, or store your recovery data at any point — we can't see it, and we'd never want to.
From our family to yours
We fund Let's Kill Ed ourselves because we want it to help other families the way we needed help. As it grows, we hope to make it a non-profit. If it makes even one hard day a little easier for you, it's done its job. — Carah & Asa