Free tool

Who does more? The chore split calculator

Twelve quick questions to estimate how the household load really splits between you and your partner — including the planning work that never makes it onto a chore chart. Takes two minutes, no signup.

Cooking weeknight meals

1.Cooking weeknight meals

Dishes & kitchen clean-up

2.Dishes & kitchen clean-up

Grocery shopping

3.Grocery shopping

Laundry, start to finish

4.Laundry, start to finish

General tidying & making the bed

5.General tidying & making the bed

Vacuuming & floors

6.Vacuuming & floors

Cleaning the bathroom

7.Cleaning the bathroom

Taking out bins & recycling

8.Taking out bins & recycling

Bills, paperwork & household admin

9.Bills, paperwork & household adminmental load

Meal planning & shopping lists

10.Meal planning & shopping listsmental load

Booking appointments, repairs & reminders

11.Booking appointments, repairs & remindersmental load

Remembering birthdays, gifts & social plans

12.Remembering birthdays, gifts & social plansmental load

How the estimate works

Each chore is weighted by the time it typically takes per week in a two-person household, so cooking counts for a lot more than taking the bins out. Your answers place each chore's hours with you, your partner, or both. The four planning questions feed a separate mental load score, because in most households the thinking work skews much harder to one side than the visible chores do.

Twelve questions can't capture a whole household, so treat the number as a rough sketch rather than a ruling. Its real job is to get the two of you talking. If the result surprises either of you, our guide on splitting chores fairly is a good place to start that conversation.