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 should be its next home.
EczemaTrack is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the National Eczema Association or EczemaWise.
First, what’s happening
These are the National Eczema Association’s own answers, from the EczemaWise help page, checked on September 1, 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 — do the three things below first.
Three things to do now, not in December
- 1. Request your data export. There’s no download button. You use the contact form on NEA’s help page with the username or email on your account, and NEA sends your tracking data back — its stated turnaround is a few weeks, and it doesn’t commit to a particular file format. A multi-week turnaround means a November request is cutting it close. Do it this week.
- 2. Save your photos off the app. NEA states it holds no photos at all — they were stored locally on your phone. So your export will not contain them. While you still have access, download them out of the app and into your camera roll.
- 3. Keep the export somewhere safe. Even if you never load it into anything, that history is worth having at dermatology and allergy appointments.
the export takes weeks. the login disappears. don’t leave it to december.
EczemaWise vs. EczemaTrack, honestly
We make EczemaTrack, so read this knowing we are not neutral. The EczemaWise column is drawn from NEA’s own help page.
| EczemaWise | EczemaTrack | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free to download and track with. Pro ($6.99/mo or $39.99/yr, 7-day trial) unlocks pattern analysis and PDF/CSV reports |
| Account | Required | None — no sign-up at all |
| Where your data lives | 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 | Only on your iPhone. App Store privacy label: “Data Not Collected” |
| Getting your data out | Contact form; NEA replies with your data in a few weeks | PDF and CSV export from the app, anytime — part of Pro |
| Deleting your account | Self-serve in Settings, in the app or on the website | Nothing to delete remotely — deleting the app removes the data with it |
| After Dec 18, 2026 | App removed from both stores, login disabled | Unaffected — there is no server to switch off |
| Built for | Adults and caregivers tracking eczema | Parents tracking a baby or toddler, specifically |
| Platforms | iOS and Android | iOS only |
| Behind it | The National Eczema Association | One dad — a solo developer whose son has eczema. No sponsors, no ads, no affiliate links |
A note on that third row, 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 EczemaTrack 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. That part is free, with no time limit, alongside a colour-coded calendar and medication reminders.
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 merely tags along with another gets held back rather than blamed. What comes out are screening-level leads to raise with your child’s doctor.
If you are thinking about cutting a food
The 2023 AAAAI/ACAAI Joint Task Force parameter suggests against elimination diets for atopic dermatitis: the benefit is small and uncertain, and the documented harm is that avoiding a food can turn a mild skin reaction into an IgE-mediated one — so the reaction on reintroduction can be worse than the one that started it, up to and including anaphylaxis. Infants are specifically flagged as higher risk. 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 2023 — Joint Task Force atopic dermatitis guideline, dietary elimination supplement.
What we won’t pretend
- No importer. Your EczemaWise history can’t be loaded in automatically — NEA doesn’t publish a standard export format. You would start fresh and keep the old file for reference.
- It needs a few weeks before it says anything. 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.
- The analysis and the reports are the paid part. Tracking is free for as long as you like; Pro is what keeps a no-ads, no-sponsors, no-data-collection app alive.
- No cloud means no automatic backup. Your data lives on your phone, and the export is your backup. 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: request your EczemaWise export this week, get your photos off the app, and keep that history for your child’s next appointment.
Free to download. No account, no sign-up.
EczemaTrack is a wellness and 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.