The chore app for couples who are tired of keeping score

Why couples fight about chores

Most arguments about housework are not about the dishes. They are about the feeling that one person carries more of the load, and that nobody notices. The planning, remembering, and checking, often called the mental load, is invisible until someone writes it down.

A chore chart on the fridge helps for a week. Then it gets out of date, and you are back to remembering who did what. A chore app for couples keeps the list current on both phones, so the record is never just one person's memory.

How MyChorito helps you split chores with your partner

• One shared chore list. You and your partner see the same household chores in real time on iPhone or iPad.
• A name and a day on every chore. Assign each chore to one person with a due date, so "I thought you were doing it" stops happening.
• Effort, not just count. Mark a chore Quick, Normal, or Big. Cleaning the fridge is worth more than wiping the table.
• Recurring chores. Set a chore to repeat daily, weekly, or monthly. When it is done, the next one is already on the list.
• Reminders. Pick a reminder when you add a chore, so nobody has to nag.
• Points and a leaderboard. Every completed chore is credited to the person who did it. The score makes the invisible work visible.
• A shared shopping list and calendar. Stop buying milk twice and stop texting "do we need anything?".

A fair split of household chores in 15 minutes

Sit down together once, when nobody is annoyed. Add the chores that happen in a normal week: dishes, laundry, trash, vacuuming, bathroom, groceries, cooking, bills. Give each one an effort level and a person. Set the repeating ones to repeat.

Then look at the totals, not the number of tasks. If one of you has three Big chores, the other can take more Quick ones. Trade chores when the week changes, and look at the score together on Sunday. Our guide on how to split household chores fairly walks through it step by step.

Is a chore app for couples worth it?

If you already split housework 50/50 without thinking about it, you probably don't need one. If one of you is quietly doing more, or you argue about the same chores every month, a shared chore list removes the guessing. MyChorito is free to download, so you can try it for a week and see if the conversation gets shorter.