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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 turned into a contest. Sweepy is a home cleaning app that turns tidying into a points based leaderboard game, with virtual coins to spend on rewards. Here is what each one does, and why the difference between splitting work and gamifying it matters.
Verified live 29 July 2026, checked against Sweepy'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 to use.
Sweepy agrees the work needs an active system, not an implicit understanding. Its own description talks about tracking the cleanliness of each room, distributing the workload among residents, and automatically generating a schedule so nobody has to remember what's next. That's the same instinct behind Lyven fusing the split with the shopping list and the meals: a system you run beats a chart nobody opens again. Sweepy was also built by two people solving their own problem. Co-founders Maxence Henneron and Oxana Ivanchenko started the app in 2019 after struggling to keep their own home clean while both working from it, a starting point Lyven shares even if the two apps ended up very different.
Sweepy's own marketing doesn't claim to be about fairness at all, it's built as a game. Tasks carry one to three points depending on difficulty: dusting a shelf earns less than mopping a floor, a real nod to effort mattering, more credit than a flat points-per-task model gives. But those points still feed a household leaderboard, and completing tasks earns coins to spend on virtual items for your home. Turning the cleaning schedule into something you compete over, and get paid in coins for, is a genuinely different idea from what Lyven is trying to do. Lyven isn't a game with a top spot to fight for. One job, one owner, permanently, and the weighting reflects the real cost of the job, not a point value tuned to keep someone playing.
Sweepy is also scoped narrower than Lyven by design. It's a cleaning schedule, room by room, not the school forms, the bills, or who remembers the dentist. If cleaning specifically is the actual friction point in your home, that focus and its room-by-room detail is more than Lyven attempts. If the problem is the whole spread of what running a home involves, that's the gap Lyven is built to close.
Sweepy is free to download on iOS and Android, with a 3 day trial of Premium before you're asked to pay. Per its own App Store listing, Sweepy Premium is US$3.99 a month or US$19.99 a year and unlocks the automatic schedule generation the app is built around; Lyven charges nothing for the equivalent, with no trial clock running down and no tier to unlock, because the whole system is the free one. 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.
If Sweepy and Tody are the two on your shortlist rather than Sweepy and Lyven, those two are judged against each other on Sweepy vs Tody, with nothing of ours in the running.
| Lyven | Sweepy | |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Splitting household work fairly between two adults, one owner per job | Scheduling and gamifying home cleaning tasks among household members |
| Fairness mechanism | Single owner per job, weighted by real effort, no rotation, no scoreboard | Difficulty weighted points (1 to 3) per task, a household leaderboard, coins for completed tasks |
| Platform | Android app on Google Play, and the web on any phone or computer | iOS and Android |
| Price | Free, full system | Free to download, 3 day trial, then Premium US$3.99/mo or US$19.99/yr |
| Built for | Two adults running a home together | Families, roommates and couples wanting a cleaning schedule with game style motivation |
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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 cleaning schedule app built by a couple who wanted their own home to stay tidy. Tracks room by room cleanliness, auto generates a schedule on Premium, and turns completed tasks into difficulty weighted points, coins, and a leaderboard household members compete on.
It depends what your household needs help with. Sweepy is a cleaning schedule built around a leaderboard and virtual coins, which some households find genuinely motivating, especially with kids earning rewards for tasks. Lyven is built specifically for the two adults running the whole home: one owner per job, weighted by real effort, with no leaderboard and no coins, fused with the shopping list and meals. If cleaning is your household's main friction point and a bit of competition helps, Sweepy is built for that. If the goal is splitting everything that runs the home, not just cleaning, without turning it into a game, Lyven is built for that instead.
Sweepy's own description doesn't claim to be about fairness, it's framed as a cleaning schedule and a game: tasks carry points weighted by difficulty, and household members compete on a leaderboard for coins. That's a genuine nod to effort mattering, more than a flat points system gives credit for, but it's still measuring who scored the most, not who carries the planning and noticing that keeps a home running. Lyven's answer is different: no points, no leaderboard, one clear owner per job, weighted by the real effort it takes.
Sweepy is free to download on iOS and Android, with a 3 day trial of Premium before you're asked to pay. Per its own App Store listing, Sweepy Premium is US$3.99 a month or US$19.99 a year. Lyven is free to use with the full system, no trial clock, no tier to unlock.
Yes, Sweepy works for couples as well as families and roommates, though its leaderboard and kid reward features are clearly built with the whole household, including children, in mind. It isn't designed specifically 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 competing for a leaderboard spot, Lyven's single owner model is built for that specific case.
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