Vent space
A private page that belongs only to you. Write at 3am, leave it unfinished, come back or delete it. No streaks, no scores, nobody reading over your shoulder.
Wellness and cooking, one app
Look after your mind. Feed your curiosity.
Talk to a licensed psychiatrist, keep a private space for the thoughts you haven't said out loud, and cook live with chefs who love what they do.
Free to download. Sessions and classes are booked inside the app.
Session with Dr. Selam
Doro wat, live at 7
What Akilil is
One place for the things that make life better.
Two things carried most of us through hard years: someone to talk to, and something good to make with our hands. Akilil is built around both.
Your sessions and your classes live side by side, and nothing crosses over. What you say to a psychiatrist stays with your psychiatrist.
Choose how to start
Start with a conversation, not a form.
Tell Akilil what's going on in your own words. You'll see psychiatrists who work with it, when they're free, and what a session costs before you book.
- Video or voice, 30 or 50 minutes
- Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya or English
- Notes and prescriptions in one thread
Sunday nights are the hardest part of my week.
Let's start there. What usually happens?
I keep replaying the whole week before it starts.
Cook along, not just watch along.
Classes run live in small groups. The chef can see your pan, you can ask why the onions aren't there yet, and the recipe stays in your library afterwards.
- Shopping list sent the day before
- Replay every class you've joined
- Ethiopian, Italian, Levantine, Thai and more
Mine looks nothing like yours 😅
Turn the heat down. Give it four more minutes.
Okay — it's going darker now. That's it?
Akilil Wellness
Care that feels like a room, not a waiting room.
Everything here is built around one idea: it should be easy to reach for help on an ordinary day, not only on the worst one.
Find a psychiatrist
Browse real profiles — training, licence number, languages spoken, what they treat most, and how they like to work. Filter by evening or weekend availability, then book the slot you can actually make.
Evenings free
Anxiety
Amharic
First session today
Private by default
Sessions and notes are encrypted in transit and at rest. Your cooking activity is never visible to a clinician, and your clinical record is never used to recommend a class.
Between sessions
Short check-ins your psychiatrist can set for you — sleep, mood, medication — so the next session starts with what actually happened, not what you can remember.
If it's urgent
Akilil isn't an emergency service. When something can't wait, the app puts local crisis lines and the nearest emergency care one tap away, before anything else.
Akilil Cooking
Learn from people who love what they do.
Chefs teach the dishes they'd cook on their own day off. Classes are live, small, and built so you end the hour with dinner on the table.
Inside a class
This is what the hour looks like.
Live now
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Chef Meron · Addis Ababa
Doro wat
Step 1 of 4 · about 2 hrs 30 min
- 1Cook the onions dry, no oil, until they collapse and turn deep red-brown.
- 2Add niter kibbeh and berbere. Let the spice bloom and darken before anything wet goes in.
- 3Add the chicken and a little water. Cover, and let it go quietly for an hour.
- 4Slide in the boiled eggs at the end so they take on colour without breaking up.
6 red onions
Berbere
Niter kibbeh
1 chicken
6 eggs
Try it — this panel works the way it does in the app.
The app
Akilil goes wherever you do.
Book a session on the bus. Join a class from the kitchen. Everything works on the connection you actually have.
Hello, Liya
Session, Thursday
6:30 pm · Dr. Selam
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Doro wat · 7:00 pm
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Today felt long but I got through it.
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Step 2 of 4 · bloom the berbere
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Chef Meron
Ethiopian home cooking
Next class · Thu 7:00 pm
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In their words
Why people stay.
I finally found a space where I could talk without feeling judged.
Learning Ethiopian food from an actual chef, from my phone, is incredible.
Booking took four minutes. I'd been putting it off for two years.
The vent space is the only place I write honestly.
About Akilil
Built in Addis, foranyone who cooks and thinks.
Akilil started from a simple observation: people will open an app to learn a recipe long before they'll open one to say they're struggling. So we built one place that earns both kinds of visit.
Every clinician on Akilil is licensed and verified before their profile goes live. Akilil does not provide emergency care.
Available on iOS and Android
Start with whichever one you need today.
A session, a class, or just somewhere to put your thoughts down.