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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 rotated between whoever's turn it is. Homsy is a whole family organiser built around auto-rotating chore schedules and completion streaks. Both use the word fair. Here is what that actually means in each app, and why the mechanism matters more than the word.
Verified live 28 July 2026, checked against Homsy's own website and its App Store listing.
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.
Homsy's own site is explicit about the goal: set up schedules that automatically rotate chores between household members, and track completion streaks to ensure chores are distributed fairly. That is a genuine attempt at the same problem Lyven exists for. Homsy also agrees the answer needs to live alongside the rest of running a home, not sit apart from it, which is why it bundles a shared calendar, shopping lists and utility tracking into one app the same way Lyven fuses the split with groceries and meals.
Homsy's fairness mechanism is rotation plus a streak. A chore moves between household members on a schedule, and a streak counter tracks whether it keeps getting done. Rotation still means someone has to remember whose turn it is this week, which is exactly the invisible planning work that a rota was supposed to remove. And a completion streak is, in plain terms, a scoreboard: something to keep up, something to break. Lyven's whole thesis is that both of those things are the failure mode, not the fix. One job, one owner, permanently, weighted by real effort. Nobody has to remember whose turn it is because it is never anybody's turn. Nobody's streak resets because there is no streak.
Homsy is also built for the whole family, kids included, and covers ground Lyven deliberately doesn't yet: utility tracking, bin night reminders, a full shared calendar with Google and Apple sync. If what you need is one app to run a household of any size, Homsy covers more of that today. If the actual problem is two adults quietly renegotiating who carries what, that's the specific case Lyven is built to close.
Homsy is free to download on iOS and Android. Per its own App Store listing, Homsy Pro is US$5.99 a month, US$29.99 a year, or a US$59.99 one time lifetime purchase. Lyven is free while in beta, the whole system, with no tier to unlock and no cap on cards or check ins. 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 | Homsy | |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Splitting household work fairly between two adults, one owner per job | Whole family organiser: tasks, chores, calendar, shopping, utilities |
| Fairness mechanism | Single owner per job, weighted by real effort, no rotation, no scoreboard | Auto-rotating chore schedules plus completion streaks |
| Platform | Web / PWA, any phone or computer | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision, Watch and Android |
| Price | Free while in beta, full system | Free to download. Homsy Pro US$5.99/mo, US$29.99/yr, or US$59.99 lifetime |
| Built for | Two adults running a home together | Couples, families with kids, or roommates |
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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.
Tasks and projects, auto-rotating chore schedules with completion streaks, a shared calendar with Google and Apple sync, shopping lists, utility tracking and bin night reminders, all offline first and available in 26 languages.
It depends what your household needs. Homsy is built for the whole family, kids included, with auto-rotating chore schedules, streaks, a shared calendar and utility tracking. Lyven is built specifically for the two adults running the home: one owner per job, weighted by real effort, with no rotation and no streaks, fused with the shopping list and meals. If you need whole-family scheduling today, Homsy covers more ground. If you want the two of you to actually stop renegotiating whose turn it is, Lyven is built for exactly that.
Homsy's own site says it lets you track completion streaks and ensure chores are distributed fairly across the family, through schedules that automatically rotate between household members. That is a real attempt at fairness, but rotation still means someone has to remember whose turn it is, and a completion streak is a scoreboard. Lyven's answer is different: no rotation, no streaks, one clear owner per job.
Homsy is free to download on iOS and Android. Per its App Store listing, Homsy Pro is US$5.99 a month, US$29.99 a year, or US$59.99 as a one time lifetime purchase. Lyven is free while in beta with the full system, no cap, no tier to unlock.
Homsy is built as a whole family organiser and works for couples, families with kids, or roommates. It is not designed specifically around the two-adult fairness problem the way Lyven is. If your household is just the two of you and the whole point is fixing who carries the mental load, Lyven's single-owner model is built for that specific case. Homsy is the broader tool.
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.
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.
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