The National Eczema Association has announced that EczemaWise — its official eczema tracking app — will shut down on December 18, 2026. New user registration closed April 15. If you've been using it to track your eczema flares, triggers, and symptoms, you'll need an alternative before then. Here's an honest guide to what to look for and what's available.
What EczemaWise did well
EczemaWise was the most credible eczema-specific tool available — NEA-endorsed, purpose-built for eczema patients. It let you log daily flare severity and itch, track potential triggers, record treatments, and generate summaries for dermatologist appointments. For patients who wanted one trusted place for their skin data, it earned 4.6 stars across 218+ App Store ratings. Its closure leaves a real gap.
What to look for in an alternative
- Daily symptom logging — flare severity, itch, sleep impact
- Trigger tracking — food, products, weather, stress, hormones
- Photo documentation for visual comparison over time
- Doctor-ready reports you can bring to appointments
- Active development — an abandoned app is just EczemaWise again in two years
Ninoa — a multi-condition tracker built by a chronic skin patient
Ninoa is a free tracking app (iOS and Android) built for people managing chronic skin conditions. It covers eczema alongside nine other conditions — psoriasis, rosacea, vitiligo, alopecia, hidradenitis suppurativa, acne, seborrheic dermatitis, urticaria, and perioral dermatitis. The founder has lived with psoriasis since childhood and built the app from the inside out: to track what actually matters, in the way patients actually think about their skin.
What Ninoa has that EczemaWise didn't
- AI skin scanner: photograph your skin and get a visual condition analysis with severity scoring — something EczemaWise never offered
- Multi-condition tracking — eczema and seborrheic dermatitis together, eczema and urticaria together, whatever your actual picture is
- Trigger pattern insights: the app surfaces what tends to precede your flares across weeks of data
- Doctor-ready reports with photos and trends
- 4 languages: English, German, Spanish, Georgian
- Actively developed — new features ship regularly
How to transition before December
EczemaWise doesn't appear to offer a data export. Before December 18, take screenshots of your symptom history, any notes about trigger patterns you've identified, and your treatment records. That knowledge is yours — capture it before the app goes dark.
Then download Ninoa, select eczema as your condition (you can add others too), and start tracking from today. The patterns you've already learned about your eczema — your known triggers, seasonal rhythms, what your skin responds to — are the most valuable part of years of tracking. Carry them with you, and let the new app confirm and build on them. Ninoa is free on iOS and Android.