Australia
Lyven is a household app for couples that gives every job a single owner, weighted by real effort, so the work is actually split fairly rather than just written down somewhere both of you can see it. It's also the only app in this category built and hosted in Australia, by two parents running their own home in Melbourne. Here's what that means in practice, and how the Australian-available alternatives compare.
Verified live 29 July 2026.
Every job in the house, from the school forms to the bins to who remembers the dentist, gets one owner. Not shared, not rotated. That owner carries the noticing and the planning as well as the doing, weighted by how much real effort the job takes, not how it looks from the outside. The split is fused with the shopping list and the meals, so it is something you run the week on, not a chart you check once and forget. There is no scoreboard and no points. Free while in beta.
Most chore apps available here are built for a US or European market and happen to also work in Australia. Lyven is the reverse: it's built and owned by two parents running their own home in Melbourne, with no outside investors. The database is hosted by Supabase in their Sydney region, and the website is served by Cloudflare, so household data doesn't need to leave the country. Data handling follows the Australian Privacy Principles, not a foreign privacy framework bolted on afterwards.
It also means the product is designed around how Australian households actually run, not adapted from somewhere else. The research below is Australian data, not a US study with the currency symbol swapped.
Government statistics and peer-reviewed research. Each figure links to its source.
All of these work in Australia, in the sense that you can download them here. Where they differ is where they're built and where your household's data lives.
| App | Built where | Australian data hosting |
|---|---|---|
| Lyven that's us | Melbourne, Australia | Yes — Supabase Sydney region |
| FairShare | Not published | Not stated |
| Nipto | Toulouse, France | Not stated |
| Sweepy | Lyon, France (Appsent) | Not stated |
| Homsy | Riga, Latvia (Must Have Apps SIA) | Not stated |
| Tody | Roskilde, Denmark (LoopLoop Aps) | Not stated |
| Maple | United States (venture-backed, Inspired Capital) | Not stated |
| Cozi | United States (owned by OurFamilyWizard / Spectrum Equity) | Not stated |
Curious how your own household actually splits?
Find your fair →Lyven is the only major chore app for couples built and hosted in Australia. It's built in Melbourne, its data is hosted in Supabase's Sydney region, and it's designed around Australian household patterns rather than adapted from a US or European product. It's free while in beta. FairShare, Nipto, Sweepy, Homsy, Tody, Maple and Cozi all work in Australia too, but each is built overseas.
Yes. Lyven is built and owned by two parents running their own home in Melbourne, operating as an Australian sole trader, with no outside investors.
Lyven's database is hosted by Supabase in their Sydney, Australia region, and the website is served by Cloudflare. Data handling follows the Australian Privacy Principles.
Yes. Lyven is private by design with Australian hosting. The Split Check requires no account, and beta data is handled under Lyven's privacy policy.
Yes, functionally. FairShare, Nipto, Sweepy, Homsy, Tody, Maple and Cozi are all available in the Australian app stores. But they're built overseas, and none of them host data locally or design specifically around Australian households the way Lyven does.
Yes. Lyven is a web app that runs in a browser on any phone or computer, anywhere there's an internet connection. There's no regional restriction and nothing to download from a store.
Lyven is free for the whole beta. After that, the plan is to keep a generous free tier for the core split and the daily habit, with paid tiers adding extra depth such as projects and outsourcing rather than gating the basics. The exact boundary is still being finalised.
You only need one of you to start. The Split Check needs no signup and no invite, so you can see your own household's split in two minutes. Most people send it to their partner afterwards to compare answers, which starts the conversation already half had.
Two minutes, ten cards, no sign up. See how the work in your home actually divides today, on any phone.
Find your fair →