Nine everyday moments. About two minutes. You take it on your own, and you don't need your partner in the room.
Most of what makes a home run isn't the doing. It's the noticing: clocking that the milk's low, that the form's due Friday, that someone needs a clean shirt by morning. That part is invisible, so it rarely gets counted and it rarely gets shared.
This works out how much of it you're holding.
No sign up, no email, and nothing is stored. We don't produce a score for you to show anyone.
Lyven is what we built for our own house. Every job gets one owner who carries the noticing and the deciding, not only the doing, so the invisible half stops landing on whoever happens to look first. It's fused with the shopping list and the meals, so it holds through a normal week instead of fading after the first good conversation.
It's free while it's in beta, and it stays free for life for the households who join during it. It takes the two of you. That's worth knowing before you sign up: this isn't something you can run on your own, and the conversation with your partner is the real first step.
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This copies a link to the check itself, never your answers. What you got is yours.
It's the invisible half of running a home: noticing what needs doing, working out when and how, and remembering it until it's done. Only the last part, the doing, is visible from the outside. That's why two people can look at the same week and honestly disagree about how the work divided.
A chore list counts the doing. This asks who notices first, which is the part that doesn't get counted. The option that matters most here is "I notice it, they do it": the job moved across but the reminding didn't, so you're still running it. A chore list would score that as shared.
No, and they answer different questions. The Split Check is for the two of you together and works out how the whole workload divides in minutes a week. This one you take on your own, in two minutes, without needing your partner in the room, and it looks only at who carries the noticing. If your partner is up for sitting down together, the Split Check is the fuller picture.
No. That's the point of it. It's written for one person answering honestly about their own household, which is why it works at 11pm when you're the only one still awake.
Deliberately not. Handing someone a number about how much you carry tends to start the argument rather than the conversation, and it puts them on the defensive before you've said anything. You get a picture of where the noticing sits and language for describing it. If you want to share something, share the check itself and compare what you each saw.
It's free, there's no account and no email, and your answers aren't stored or sent anywhere. Everything happens in your browser and it's gone when you close the tab.
Built in Melbourne by two people running one home.
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