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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 split fairly and the split itself is something you can see. Maple is an AI powered family organiser: a shared calendar, an inbox, meal planning and chores, built to manage the sheer volume of family logistics. Neither app disagrees that running a home takes real work. The difference is what each one is trying to fix.
Verified live 29 July 2026, checked against growmaple.com and Maple's own 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.
Maple is the most ambitious organiser in this comparison series. Its Assistant reads email and turns a school newsletter or a sports schedule into calendar entries and tasks automatically, alongside a shared calendar, a family inbox, meal planning, grocery lists and a chore tracker, all in one app. If the problem in your household is the sheer volume of logistics, more emails, more forms, more schedules than two people can track by hand, Maple is built to absorb that volume directly.
Maple organises the work. It doesn't measure who carries it. Nothing in Maple assigns lasting ownership of a job to one person, weighs how much effort a task takes, or shows a couple whether the load has drifted onto one partner over time. A chore tracker inside an organiser still needs the two of you to agree, informally, on who does what, the exact renegotiation Lyven exists to end. Lyven's single owner model, weighted by real effort and fused with the same daily shopping and meal lists Maple also offers, is built for a different question: not what needs doing, but who is carrying it, and is that fair.
Maple is a venture-backed startup, not a bootstrapped indie app. It raised a US$3.5 million seed round led by Inspired Capital, with Box Group and Shopify angel investors including Shopify president Harley Finkelstein also in, and was founded around 2020 by Michael Perry and Mike Taylor, both Shopify alumni who previously built and sold a company called Kit. Perry has described the long term vision as building "the family graph", data infrastructure for recommendations and a services marketplace, alongside the organiser. Lyven is built and owned by two parents running their own home, with no outside investors. Neither structure is right or wrong on its own, but it's a real difference in what each product is ultimately building toward.
Maple is free to download on iOS, Android and the web, and the free tier includes the calendar, meal planner, shopping lists, family inbox and chore tracker at no cost. Maple+ unlocks external calendar sync, unlimited AI actions, group chat and outside email integration, but the exact price isn't published in one place. Its own App Store listing shows several different Maple and Maple+ options at once, from about US$4.99 to US$9.99 a month, with the number only confirmed once you're inside the signup flow. Lyven is free while in beta, the whole system, at one clear price: nothing, for now. 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 divides right now.
| Lyven | Maple | |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Splitting household work fairly between two adults, one owner per job | AI powered family logistics: calendar, inbox, meals, lists and chores in one place |
| Fairness mechanism | Single owner per job, weighted by real effort, no rotation, no scoreboard | None. Maple organises tasks; it doesn't measure or assign who carries them |
| Platform | Web / PWA, any phone or computer | iOS, Android and web |
| Price | Free while in beta, full system | Free tier is generous; Maple+ about US$4.99 to US$9.99/mo, exact price shown at signup |
| Built for | Two adults running a home together | Parents managing high volume family logistics, AI assisted |
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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.
A venture-backed AI family organiser. Its Assistant reads email and turns school notices and schedules into calendar entries and tasks automatically, alongside a shared calendar, family inbox, meal planner, grocery lists and a chore tracker.
It depends what's broken in your household. Maple is an AI powered family organiser: built to absorb the volume of family logistics, calendar, meals, email and chores in one place, with an assistant that turns school emails into tasks automatically. Lyven is built specifically for the two adults running the home: one owner per job, weighted by real effort, with the split itself as the point rather than a side feature. If the problem is too much to track, Maple is built for that. If the problem is that one partner tracks all of it, Lyven is built for that instead.
No, and Maple doesn't claim to. It's an organiser, not a fairness app: the chore tracker inside it still needs the two of you to informally agree who does what, the same renegotiation Lyven exists to end. Nothing in Maple weighs effort, assigns lasting ownership, or shows whether the load has drifted onto one partner over time. Lyven's answer is a single owner per job, weighted by the real effort it takes.
Maple's free tier includes the calendar, meal planner, shopping lists, family inbox and chore tracker. Maple+ adds external calendar sync, unlimited AI actions and group chat, but the exact price isn't published in one place: its own App Store listing shows several different options from about US$4.99 to US$9.99 a month, confirmed only inside the signup flow. Lyven is free while in beta with the full system, one clear price: nothing, for now.
Yes, Maple works for any family, including couples without kids, though its AI assistant and email features are clearly built around the volume of logistics a family with kids generates. It isn't designed around the two adult fairness problem the way Lyven is. If your household is just the two of you and the goal is fixing who carries the mental load rather than organising more of it, Lyven's single owner model is built for that specific case.
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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