The National Eczema Association is closing EczemaWise on December 18, 2026. On that date the app comes off the App Store and Google Play, and login at eczemawise.org stops working. It already closed to new users on April 15, 2026. If you've been tracking in it, possibly for years, that history is worth saving, and part of it will not save itself.
The three things to do, in order
1. Save your photos first. They are only on your phone.
This is the step people will miss. EczemaWise never uploaded your skin photos; the NEA confirms they were stored locally on your device. That was good privacy design, but it means no export will include them. While you still have the app, go through your photo history and save the images you want to keep. If you delete the app or lose the phone, they're gone.
2. Request your tracking data from the NEA.
There's no export button in the app. Instead, contact the NEA through the form linked on the EczemaWise help page with the username or email on your account, and they'll send your tracking data. They describe the turnaround as a few weeks, so don't leave this for December 17.
Also worth doing while everything still works: generate provider health report PDFs for the date ranges you care about, and save them. Those one-page summaries are the most useful form of your history at future appointments, whatever you switch to.
3. Decide what happens to your research data.
EczemaWise doubled as an NEA research project. The NEA says it will keep maintaining its database of participant information for research after the app closes, and that you can withdraw at any time by contacting them directly. Neither choice is wrong; it's just a decision worth making on purpose rather than by default. Their privacy policy has the details.
Picking a replacement
The NEA hasn't endorsed a successor, and honestly, no current app is a drop-in copy of EczemaWise. The closest matches, briefly:
- Eczema Care+ (free, iOS and Android), from the Pierre Fabre Eczema Foundation, is the nearest thing to EczemaWise's spirit: nonprofit-adjacent, no ads, and built on PO-SCORAD, a validated severity score.
- EczemaLess, Bearable, Exemio, Ninoa cover the freemium and subscription end, each with a different angle: AI photo scoring, whole-life symptom correlation, AI pattern analysis, multi-condition tracking.
- Paper is a legitimate answer while you decide. A one-page log on the fridge kept working through every app shutdown in history.
The full rundown with prices and trade-offs is at best eczema tracking apps in 2026, and the method itself, what to record and why, is at how to track eczema flares.
Where Itch Log fits, honestly
Itch Log is the app behind this site. I'm a physician, and I'm building it around the same idea EczemaWise users already understand: track between visits, then hand your dermatologist one clear page. It is not released yet; we're aiming for late 2026, iPhone first, and we're looking into importing the data export the NEA sends you, so your history doesn't have to start over.
I won't pretend that timing helps you today. What I can offer now: join the waitlist and you get our free printable one-page flare log immediately, which covers the gap on paper, and an email when the beta opens.
The short checklist. Save your photos off your phone. Request your data export from the NEA. Download provider report PDFs while the app works. Decide about research withdrawal. Pick a replacement, or print a paper log, before December 18.
Questions
When exactly does EczemaWise shut down?
December 18, 2026. The app leaves the App Store and Google Play and login at eczemawise.org is disabled. Until then, existing users keep full access.
Can new users still sign up?
No. Registration closed on April 15, 2026.
Will my photos be in the data export?
No. Photos were stored only on your device, never uploaded. Save them from the app yourself while you still have access.
Does the NEA keep my data after shutdown?
The NEA says it maintains its research database of participant information after the app closes, and that you can withdraw at any time by contacting them.
Is there an official replacement?
No. The NEA has not endorsed a successor app. The options are covered in our comparison of eczema tracking apps.
Shutdown details come from the NEA's own help page and were last checked July 31, 2026. If the NEA updates its dates or process, this page will be updated; if you spot something outdated, the fastest fix is telling us. This page is general information, not medical advice.