UrgeWise is a private, gamified tracking app built specifically for people living with body-focused repetitive behaviours — including skin picking, hair pulling, nail biting, and more.
Download NowFree to try · Android first · Your data stays private
Free to try · Android first · Your data stays private
What UrgeWise does
UrgeWise rewards you every time you monitor your behaviour, be it good, bad or somewhere in-between.
Charts by location, body part, and time reveal when and where your urges spike. Turn vague feelings into real insight.
Build streaks and watch your progress compound. The app tracks your current streak live and saves completed streaks to your history.
Set meaningful time-based goals — hours, days, or weeks incident-free — and earn locked achievements when you reach them.
Earn Urge Catching Points, Pick Free Points, and Awareness Points. Your daily score reflects real effort, not just outcomes.
Capture what’s going on emotionally in the moment. Over time, the patterns in your thoughts become just as revealing as the behaviour itself.
Set your BFRB type and personalise your body part and location labels. The app adapts to your specific situation.
Your data is yours. UrgeWise is built on secure, encrypted infrastructure. Nothing is shared or sold.
Every logged event provides another data point for statistical analysis of your body-focused repetitive disorder.
Understanding BFRBs
Body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) affect an estimated 1 in 20 people. They’re not habits you can simply “stop.” They’re deeply ingrained responses to stress, boredom, and emotional overwhelm. Most people who have them carry them silently for years.
The first step isn’t willpower. It’s awareness.
What makes UrgeWise different
The battle isn’t just about stopping — it’s about catching urges before they become incidents. UrgeWise rewards you for both, because awareness is the first step to change.
Log an urge instead of acting on it? That’s a win. When you’re brave enough to log an incident? That’s an awareness victory. When you go 6 hours without any major incidents? That’s another win, automatically tracked by the app.
Everything about this app is designed to keep you motivated to monitor and manage your impulse control disorder over time. Stack enough wins and you may start to feel — for the first time in a long time — that you are actually on the road to recovery.
“Awareness is the first step to change. Every entry helps you understand your patterns better.”From inside the app
The story behind UrgeWise
UrgeWise was created by Richard, who has lived with skin-picking disorder for over 30 years. This isn’t a generic wellness app. Every feature was designed around the real, daily experience of living with a BFRB.
Given how expensive other treatment options can be, this app offers a low-risk, high-reward solution that can act as an immensely powerful ally on your journey to full recovery, with the ultimate goal of achieving normality rather than perfection.
With so little to lose and so much to potentially gain, what are you waiting for? Take the first step out of BFRB hell and download the app today.
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