Switching from EczemaWise?
EczemaWise closes on December 18, 2026. Here’s how to save your family’s history before it’s gone — and an honest look at whether EczemaTrack is a good fit for what comes next.
EczemaTrack is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the National Eczema Association or EczemaWise.
EczemaTrack in one line: an iPhone app for parents tracking a baby’s or toddler’s eczema. It’s free right now (pattern insights included), there’s no account, and what you log stays on your iPhone. Not on Android. See it on the App Store
Trying to create an EczemaWise account? New sign-ups ended on April 15, 2026, so there is no way to join now. If you want to start tracking your child’s eczema today, the comparison below is a fair place to start.
First, what’s happening
These are the National Eczema Association’s own answers, from the EczemaWise help page, checked on October 2, 2026:
- April 15, 2026 — EczemaWise closed to new user registration.
- December 18, 2026 — the app is removed from the App Store and Google Play, and the login at eczemawise.org is switched off. Existing users keep full access until then.
- NEA is not naming a replacement. It says other tracking apps exist and that it does not endorse any specific one. Where you go next is genuinely your call — including here.
If your family relied on EczemaWise, that’s a real loss. It was free, it came from a nonprofit many parents trust, and for a lot of families it holds months or years of a child’s skin history. Whatever you switch to — including if it isn’t us — get your data out first.
How to get your data back from NEA
NEA’s help page says it will send your tracking data “in the next few weeks” after you ask. The app and the login end on December 18. A request sent now leaves time for the reply to arrive — and time to follow up if it doesn’t. It takes about five minutes.
- 1. Open NEA’s support form. It’s the form NEA’s own help page points to for downloading your EczemaWise data: tfaforms.com/4848315.
- 2. Fill it in like this. There is no “export” option in the first question, so pick the closest one.
- What do you need help with?
- Data safety/privacy (or General inquiries)
- I am asking as a:
- Patient or Caregiver
- What are you using to access EczemaWise?
- Whichever you use: Apple Phone/iPad, Android, or Computer/Web browser
- The details box
- Paste the message in step 3
- First name, last name, email
- Yours — use an email you check, because that is where the reply goes
- 3. Copy this message into the details box. Add the username or email on your EczemaWise account at the end — NEA needs one of them to find your data. NEA hasn’t committed to a file format, so the message asks rather than insists.
Message to NEA
Please send me all of my EczemaWise tracking data, as a spreadsheet file if possible. My EczemaWise username/email is:
- 4. Note the date you sent it. If nothing has arrived after a few weeks, send the form again and mention your first request — while there is still time before December 18. Keep the EczemaWise app on your phone until NEA’s file has arrived and you’ve checked that it opens.
While you still have the app
These two can’t wait for NEA’s reply. Both come out of the app itself, and the login is switched off on December 18 — NEA says it holds no photos, so there is no other copy to ask for later.
- 5. Save your photos to your phone. NEA says it holds no photos — they were stored on your device, so the data NEA sends you won’t include them. Its help page says that if you still have access to the app, you can download the photos from your account. Save any you want to keep before December 18.
- 6. Download an Appointment Summary PDF too. This is the health report the app makes for your child’s provider. Start appointment prep and work through Find Focus, Think Big Picture, Review Treatments and Affected Areas to the Summary, then View Summary and Download PDF (if your screens are labelled a little differently, the PDF is at the end of appointment prep). It is a summary made for an appointment, so it is a useful snapshot — not your full history. The request above is what gets you everything.
- 7. Keep it all somewhere safe. Even if you never load it into anything, that history is worth having at appointments with your child’s dermatologist or allergist.
the reply takes weeks. the login disappears. send it today.
EczemaWise vs. EczemaTrack, honestly
We make EczemaTrack, so read this knowing we are not neutral. The EczemaWise side of this comparison is drawn from NEA’s own help page and App Store description.
Price
EczemaWise: Free
EczemaTrack: Free right now, every feature included — pattern analysis and PDF/CSV reports too
Account
EczemaWise: Required
EczemaTrack: None — no sign-up at all
Where your data lives
EczemaWise: NEA’s servers. After the app closes, NEA continues to maintain its research database of participant information; the data in it is de-identified and you can withdraw by contacting NEA
EczemaTrack: Only on your iPhone. App Store privacy label: “Data Not Collected”
Getting your data out
EczemaWise: Full data: NEA’s contact form, and NEA says it replies within a few weeks. The app can also make an Appointment Summary PDF for an appointment
EczemaTrack: A PDF report for your child’s doctor and a CSV spreadsheet of everything, from the app anytime — free right now
Deleting your account
EczemaWise: Self-serve in Settings, in the app or on the website
EczemaTrack: Nothing to delete remotely — deleting the app removes the data with it
After Dec 18, 2026
EczemaWise: App removed from both stores, login disabled
EczemaTrack: Unaffected — there is no server to switch off
Built for
EczemaWise: Adults and caregivers tracking eczema
EczemaTrack: Parents tracking a baby or toddler, specifically
Platforms
EczemaWise: iOS and Android
EczemaTrack: iOS only
Behind it
EczemaWise: The National Eczema Association
EczemaTrack: One dad — a solo developer whose son has eczema. No sponsors, no ads, no affiliate links
A note on where your data lives, because it would be easy to make it sound like a scandal and it isn’t one. NEA is a research nonprofit and is open about the fact that EczemaWise entries form a research registry; it says the data is de-identified, is never sold commercially, and that you can withdraw at any time. It is a genuine design difference, not a failing: EczemaWise data outlives the app inside an organisation’s database, while the EczemaTrack app collects nothing, so there is nothing anywhere to outlive anything.
What EczemaTrack does differently
A check-in built for tired parents. About two minutes a day: severity and scratch level, an interactive body map with 15 regions front and back, foods and common allergens, creams and medications, baths, pets, places and weather. All of that is free right now, along with a colour-coded calendar, medication reminders and the pattern analysis.
It looks across days, not just at today. A detergent or cream can show on the skin the next morning rather than the same evening, and a same-day diary can never see that. EczemaTrack checks each factor over the window that fits it: detergents, soaps and creams same-day and the next morning; baths the next morning; foods you have flagged as common allergens same-day and up to two days later. Everything else is checked same-day — we don’t claim a window we haven’t tested.
It stays humble about what it finds. The analysis is ordinary statistics running entirely on your phone, not AI and not a server. Eczema has natural ups and downs that can fake a pattern, so every hunch is tested against chance before you see it, and a factor that usually tags along with another is re-checked with its companion held fixed before it’s reported. What comes out are screening-level leads to raise with your child’s doctor.
Free right now · Pattern insights included
If you are thinking about cutting a food
The 2023 AAAAI/ACAAI Joint Task Force guideline suggests against elimination diets for atopic dermatitis. It weighs small, uncertain benefits against potentially large harms, up to and including anaphylaxis: keeping a food away from an infant who tests sensitized to it but has not yet eaten it has been linked to a higher risk of developing an immediate, IgE-mediated reaction to that food. Infants are specifically flagged as higher risk. A separate AAAAI work group report describes children with no history of immediate reactions who began reacting immediately after a food was cut — some with anaphylaxis when they ate it again. That is why nobody should start, or end, an elimination diet from a notebook or an app.
If a food shows up in your logs, that is a question for your child’s doctor or allergist — not an instruction. Bring the record; let them decide what to do with it.
Chu DK et al., Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2024;132(3):274–312, doi:10.1016/j.anai.2023.11.009 — Joint Task Force atopic dermatitis guideline and its dietary elimination supplement. Singh AM et al., J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2022;10(3):697–706, doi:10.1016/j.jaip.2021.12.037 — AAAAI work group report.
What we won’t pretend
- No importer. Your EczemaWise history won’t appear in EczemaTrack’s log, calendar or Insights — NEA doesn’t publish a standard export format, and its records don’t match EczemaTrack’s daily entries. What the app can do, from version 1.0.14 (More → Leaving EczemaWise?): keep a copy of the file NEA sends you, or any other EczemaWise file up to 50 MB, on your iPhone, open it there, and attach it next to the doctor report if you choose. You start a fresh log alongside it.
- It needs 30 logged days before the pattern analysis says anything. Even then, nothing surfaces until there are enough days both with and without a factor to compare. It stays quiet until the numbers mean something.
- It doesn’t diagnose anything. These are statistical patterns in your own logs, not medical advice. They cannot diagnose, treat, or predict eczema, and they cannot identify an allergy.
- iOS only. If your family is on Android, we are not your answer today.
- It’s free right now, and that may change. Every feature is unlocked for now, the pattern analysis and the reports included. A paid subscription is built into the app but switched off. No ads, no sponsors and no data collection, either way.
- No account means no sync. Your data lives on your iPhone. It is included in your iPhone’s standard iCloud backup if you have backups turned on, but nothing syncs it to another device. The PDF and CSV export is a copy you can read and share, not a backup — the app can’t load it back in. One privacy caveat stated plainly: the optional weather auto-fill sends approximate location to Apple’s weather service. Skip it and enter weather by hand if you’d rather.
If you go somewhere else
Genuinely fine. A spreadsheet you actually keep beats any app you abandon. The only thing we’d push anyone on: send your EczemaWise data request now, save your photos to your phone, and keep that history for your child’s next appointment.
Free to download. No account, no sign-up.
EczemaTrack is a personal tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or predict any condition, and it does not identify allergies. The patterns it shows are correlations in your own logs — early leads to talk through with a qualified healthcare professional.