Lyven's Split Check is a free chore calculator for couples: ten cards, two minutes, no sign-up. Say who handles each job, how often it comes round and how long it takes, and it shows the share of the home each of you carries next to the share you'd call fair. It starts right here: pick your household.
Tap one and the calculator opens on the next screen. Free, two minutes, no sign-up.
Then your ideal share, ten cards with three taps each, and anything the deck missed.
Written by the team at Lyven · describes the Split Check as it runs on 21 September 2026.
Totalled per person, then shown as a share of the whole.
Most days counts as five times a week. Weekly counts once. Now and then counts as roughly once a month, about a quarter of a week's worth. Each is multiplied by the minutes you picked, so a 30 minute job done most days weighs 150 minutes a week, and a two hour job done now and then weighs about 28. A card you both handle counts half to each of you.
It weighs time, not a count of tasks, because the count is the number that misleads. Two people can each name eight jobs and live completely different weeks; dinners and dishes on their own outweigh a dozen monthly errands. The method behind this is on how to measure who does more housework; the calculator just runs it for you.
One thing it can't see on its own. The card asks who handles a job. Answer for whoever carries the noticing and the planning, not only the hands. If one of you clocks that the fridge is empty and works out the week, and the other does the shop, the first person owns that card. That's the only way the invisible half of the work gets counted, and it's the half that usually goes uncounted. The free Mental Load Check separates the noticing from the doing on its own, for one person.
Two numbers on one ring: the split you're actually running, and the share you said would feel fair. The gap between them is the conversation, and it's usually a more useful one than "who does more", because it starts from what you each already think is fair.
It isn't a score and there's no leaderboard. Your answers stay on your phone, the result only goes anywhere if you ask for it by email, and nobody sees it unless you show them. Fair isn't 50/50. It's the split you both agree on, and keep agreeing on.
Done as a pair, it's twice as useful. Do it separately, then compare. If you each think you carry 60 percent, the calculator has just told you why the arguments go in circles.
Most free chore calculators do one of three things: count how many tasks each person has, ask you to score each job's effort out of ten, or weigh by time. Counting tasks fails for the reason above. Effort scores are honest but subjective, and two people will score the same job differently, which moves the argument rather than settling it. Weighing by time is the one approach where the input is a fact you can both check, which is why the Split Check uses it, and why the only judgement it asks for is who owns the card.
The other difference is what happens after. A result is a snapshot. The Split Check's is built to become your starting deck in Lyven, where each job keeps its one owner and a weekly check-in stops the split drifting back. That part is free for life for any household that joins during the beta.
Ten cards, two minutes, no sign-up. See the split you're really running next to the one you'd call fair.
Start the Split Check →Yes. The Split Check is a free chore calculator for couples from Lyven: ten cards, about two minutes, no sign-up. You say who handles each job, how often it comes round and how long it takes, and it shows the share of the home each of you carries, next to the share you said would feel fair.
It weighs time, not the number of tasks. Each card's frequency is multiplied by the minutes it takes: most days counts as five times a week, weekly once, now and then about once a month. A job you both handle counts half to each of you. The weekly minutes are totalled per person and shown as a share of the whole.
Partly. It counts each card against whoever owns it, so if you answer for the person who notices and plans a job rather than the one whose hands do it, the invisible work is in the total. It does not separate the noticing from the doing on its own. The free Mental Load Check does exactly that, for one person, in about two minutes.
It is free, with no sign-up and no account. Your answers stay on your phone. The only thing that leaves it is the result, and only if you ask to have it emailed to you. Lyven is built in Melbourne and hosted in Australia.
Not necessarily. Fair is the split you both agree on and keep agreeing on, which is why the calculator asks for the share you think should be yours before you start and compares the result to that, not to an even split. If one of you works longer hours or carries more outside the home, fair may sit well away from half.
Yes, separately, then compare. Each of you answers for how you see the week, and the difference between the two results is usually where the argument has been living. Sending the Split Check to your partner takes one tap from the result screen.