Start with your own split
Two minutes, ten cards, no sign-up. You'll see how the work divides in your home right now, and whether you both call that fair.
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Free tools
Three things we've made free, with nothing behind a sign-up: a calculator that shows how the work actually divides, the full list of what running a home involves, and a one-page script for having the conversation.
Answer 10 quick cards about who does what. It weights every job by the real effort it takes, not by how long it looks from the outside, then shows you the split your household is actually running next to the split you each said would feel fair. How it works.
Best for: seeing the gap between what you assume is happening and what is.
Nine everyday moments, answered by whether you notice it, whether you do it, or both. It works out how much of the noticing lands on you, including the jobs you handed over but still have to remember. You take this one on your own, without needing your partner in the room.
Best for: putting words to the invisible half before you raise it.
All 68 jobs it takes to run a home, across five areas, with how often each one comes up and how long it really takes. Most versions of this list are sold as a deck of cards or a book. Ours is a web page you can read, print, and argue with.
Best for: agreeing on what the work even is, before you try to split it.
A calm, printable cheat sheet for raising the mental load with your partner: the three parts of every job, six steps with lines you can borrow word for word, the four openers that backfire, and sourced figures from Australia, the UK and the US. Designed to sit open beside you while you talk. The full walkthrough is in how to explain the mental load, and what is on the sheet, with how to use it as a pair, is on the mental load checklist page.
Best for: the conversation itself, when you don't want to lose your thread.
Two more things worth printing, both free and neither behind an email form. A chore chart template for couples, one page, with an owner column, a weight in minutes against every job and a total at the bottom. And the household chores list, all 68 jobs with their frequency and effort weight, built to print twice and fill in separately before you compare.
Best for: doing it with a pen, at the kitchen table, without an app.
Lyven is a household app built in Melbourne by two people running one home. These tools work perfectly well as standalone things, so that's how we've published them: no account, no email wall, no trial. If they sort things out for you and you never come back, that's fine. If you want the split to stay sorted, that is what the app is for.
Prefer reading to clicking? The guides cover what the mental load is, how to divide chores so it holds, and an honest comparison of the chore apps, including where a rival beats us.
Two minutes, ten cards, no sign-up. You'll see how the work divides in your home right now, and whether you both call that fair.
Open the calculator →