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Lyven is a household app for couples that splits the home fairly: single owner per job, no scoreboard. Jobs are weighted by real effort, so the work is split rather than just written down somewhere both of you can see it. FairShare is the closest app to Lyven in philosophy, also built on Eve Rodsky's Fair Play method. Here is where the two genuinely differ, and what that means for the week you're actually running.
Verified live 18 September 2026 against FairShare's own App Store listing, and re-checked in the app itself on 10 October 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 to use.
Fair Play's argument is that rotating a task still leaves one partner managing the rota. Give a job a single owner instead, covering the conceiving, planning and doing, and the noticing moves with it. FairShare and Lyven both start from that idea, and neither turns the split into a scoreboard: no points and no weekly winner, the way Nipto or FairChore do. The one difference here is that FairShare now counts a streak of weekly check-ins, and Lyven doesn't. FairShare's Noticing Score sounds competitive, but it isn't one. It's a percentage of how the noticing currently divides between partners, the same job Lyven's own Split view does. Both apps measure an imbalance. Neither is keeping score between partners.
FairShare's strength is diagnosis. Its Noticing Score puts a number on how much of the household's noticing lands on each partner, and its AI Brain Dump turns a spoken stream of worries into cards fast. That is a genuinely useful lens, and by FairShare's own listing it stops there: the ownership split, a weekly reset, and a visualiser showing the load.
Lyven's ownership runs into the actual week. The same single owner per job also owns the shopping list, the meals and the running list of what the home needs, so the split is not a score you check on. It is where the groceries get bought from. FairShare tells a couple how the load is landing this week. Lyven is built to keep it landing evenly next week too.
FairShare is iPhone only. As of September 2026 it requires iOS 17 or macOS 14 on Apple Silicon, so it runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, with no Android app and no standalone web version. Lyven has apps for iPhone and Android, and works in the browser on any phone or computer. If one partner carries an Android phone, FairShare is not an option for that household at all.
Both apps are free to start, and the honest comparison is what that free tier includes. FairShare's free tier keeps the whole deck, with no card cap we could find (85 cards in the deck on a free account), and limits Brain Dumps to five a month. FairShare+ adds the Full Visualizer, Pattern Memory and more Brain Dumps: a seven day trial, then US$8.99 a month or US$149.99 as a lifetime purchase (AU$14.99 and AU$229.99 on the Australian App Store). There is no standard annual plan; a one time AU$59.99 a year offer appears for 24 hours when you dismiss the paywall. Lyven is free to use, with the full system: every card, the weekly check in and the daily lists, with no cap. The quickest way to see it is the free Split Check, a two minute, no sign up look at how your own household's work actually divides right now.
| Lyven | FairShare | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | iPhone app on the App Store, Android app on Google Play, and the web on any phone or computer | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro. No Android |
| Price | Free, full system | Free tier keeps the deck, caps Brain Dumps. FairShare+ US$8.99/mo or US$149.99 lifetime (AU$14.99, AU$229.99); no standard annual plan |
| Core mechanic | Single owner per job, weighted by real effort, fused with shopping and meal lists | Single owner cards (100+) with a Noticing Score measuring the invisible load |
| Weekly rhythm | Weekly check in, each partner's note sealed until both have submitted | A five-step weekly check-in, filled in on one phone: what worked, what didn't, cards to renegotiate (typed as text), one ask for yourself. Counts a streak |
| AI | None in the app at the moment | Brain Dump sorts what you say into cards with AI: on the phone with Apple Intelligence where it can, otherwise Anthropic's Claude, per FairShare's privacy policy |
| Built where | Melbourne, Australia. Australian data hosting | Independent iPhone studio (Culi). Pricing shown in USD |
Curious how your own household actually splits?
Find your fair →A single owner per job, weighted by real effort, fused with the shopping list, the meals and the running list of what the home needs, so the split is something you live in rather than something you check on.
Built on Eve Rodsky's Fair Play method, with 100 plus cards owned end to end across Home, Kids, Out, Wild and Unicorn categories. Its signature idea is the Noticing Score: a number for how much of the household's noticing lands on each partner, making the gap between who notices and who does visible.
It depends what you want from it. FairShare's Noticing Score is a sharp, focused tool for measuring how the invisible load lands on each partner, and it runs beautifully on iPhone. Lyven's ownership split runs into the actual week: the same single owner also carries the shopping list, the meals and the daily running of the home, and it works on any phone.
Yes. FairShare's free tier keeps the whole deck, with no card cap we could find (85 cards in the deck on a free account), and limits Brain Dumps to five a month. FairShare+ adds the Full Visualizer, Pattern Memory and more Brain Dumps: a seven day trial, then US$8.99 a month or US$149.99 as a lifetime purchase (AU$14.99 and AU$229.99 on the Australian App Store). There is no standard annual plan; a one time AU$59.99 a year offer appears for 24 hours when you dismiss the paywall. Lyven is free to use with the full system and no cap.
No. As of September 2026, FairShare requires iOS 17 or macOS 14 on Apple Silicon, so it runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro only, with no Android app. Lyven has an Android app on Google Play and runs on the web on any phone or computer.
Yes, in Brain Dump. You speak or type what's on your mind and it suggests cards for you to approve. FairShare's privacy policy names Anthropic's Claude for this, and its release notes say iPhones with Apple Intelligence can do the sorting on the phone instead. Pattern Memory, part of FairShare+, also uses AI to read your check-in history. Lyven doesn't use AI in the app at the moment.
Yes, for the shared side of it. FairShare needs iOS 17 or macOS 14 to run at all, so if either partner carries an Android phone, that partner cannot open the app, and a Fair Play style split only works if both people can see it. Lyven has iPhone and Android apps and runs in a browser on any phone, so a mixed iPhone and Android household is not a workaround. It just works.
Yes. Lyven and FairShare are both inspired by Eve Rodsky's Fair Play method, giving each household job a single owner rather than splitting tasks down the middle. Neither is the official Fair Play app. Lyven uses its own card set and language, including a Definition of Done for each job rather than Rodsky's Minimum Standard of Care.
Lyven is free to use. We may add paid extras later, and nobody is charged without choosing to. See Foundation membership.
Yes. Lyven is private by design with Australian hosting. The Split Check requires no account, and your data is handled under Lyven's privacy policy.
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.
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