Household · Weekly chores
Spin the free Chore Wheel to fairly assign household chores. Add your chores or family members, spin, and let the wheel decide — no arguments, no favorites. Works for families and roommates.
A parent runs the wheel
Everyone spins
Two names, many chores
Keep a separate list
A Chore Wheel is a fair, random way to assign household tasks. Instead of arguing over who does what, everyone spins the wheel and accepts the result. The random selection removes bias — no one can claim the wheel is unfair because it treats every slice equally.
Use it for families, roommates, couples, or any shared household. You can run it two ways: add the chores and spin to pick one task, or add people's names and spin to pick who does the next job. Further down this page, the Weekly Rotation Schedule tool builds on the same idea for households that want a full multi-week plan instead of spinning fresh every time.
| Compared on | Spin for chores (Method 1) | Spin for people (Method 2) |
|---|---|---|
| What is on the wheel | The chores (it starts with 6). | The household members. |
| Who spins | Each person takes a turn and keeps what they land on. | Someone reads out a chore and spins to see who does it. |
| Split of 6 chores across 4 people | Exactly even: 2 people get 2 chores and 2 get 1. | Whatever the spins produce, one chore at a time. |
| Chance somebody gets no chore | 0% | 61.9% |
| Chance the split is as even as it can be | 100% | 26.4% |
| Chance one person ends up with 3 or more | 0% | 64.8% |
| Extra work for you | Delete each taken chore from the list (Edit Options) before the next spin. | None; the list of people never changes. |
Method 1 tends to feel fairer because the counts come out as even as they can: with 6 chores and 4 people, 2 people take 2 chores and the rest take 1. Method 2 can lead to one person getting more if the wheel picks them repeatedly — the table above puts that at 64.8% for someone getting three or more. Removing a taken chore is a manual step: open Edit Options and press the × next to it, because the Chore Wheel does not remove entries by itself.
The Weekly Rotation Schedule below is a second tool on this page. Add everyone and every chore once, choose 1 to 26 weeks (it starts at 4), and press Generate: the people are shuffled once, and then every week each person moves one chore further down your chore list, so nobody keeps the same job two weeks running. There is no re-spinning, and you can export the table as CSV or print it for the fridge.
| Week | Ana | Ben | Cy | Dee | Nobody has it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Dishes | Vacuuming | Trash | Laundry | Bathroom, Groceries |
| Week 2 | Vacuuming | Trash | Laundry | Bathroom | Dishes, Groceries |
| Week 3 | Trash | Laundry | Bathroom | Groceries | Dishes, Vacuuming |
| Week 4 | Laundry | Bathroom | Groceries | Dishes | Vacuuming, Trash |
| Week 5 | Bathroom | Groceries | Dishes | Vacuuming | Trash, Laundry |
| Week 6 | Groceries | Dishes | Vacuuming | Trash | Laundry, Bathroom |
Each row is one week, and each person's chore moves one step down the list from the previous row. Over 6 weeks every person handles each of the 6 chores exactly once, and each chore is taken 4 times in all (24 assignments spread over 6 chores). The catch is the last column: a week only holds as many chores as there are people, so with 4 people and 6 chores, 2 chores are left over every week. If that matters, plan a second table for the leftover chores, or make the list of people as long as the list of chores.
aria-live region so a screen reader speaks it right away and a result popup closes with Escape. Slice labels are canvas drawings, so the options list is the readable copy. With the operating system’s “reduce motion” setting on, the wheel turns at most once instead of several times and confetti is skipped. The rotation table is a normal HTML table with a header row.Many families use a fixed weekly chart where the same person always does the same chore. That works fine when everyone genuinely prefers their assigned task, but it breaks down the moment someone feels their chore is worse than everyone else's — and disputes about a fixed chart tend to repeat every single week because the underlying assignment never changes.
A random wheel resets that dynamic. Because assignments change each time you spin, no one is stuck with the least-liked chore forever, and no one can accuse the schedule-maker of playing favorites since a random number generator made the call, not a person. The trade-off is a little less predictability — you cannot promise anyone they will always have the same easy chore — but for most households the fairness gain outweighs the loss of routine.
Not all chores take the same amount of time or effort, and a purely random wheel treats a five-minute task the same as a forty-five-minute one. If that bothers your household, a few adjustments keep things random while accounting for effort:
The Chore Wheel works especially well for households with children because the idea of "the wheel decided, not me" takes the adult out of the argument and makes the distribution feel fair and game-like. The adult running the household keeps control of the list and the rules:
Chore disputes are one of the most common sources of roommate conflict. The Chore Wheel removes the human element — no one can accuse anyone of playing favorites when the wheel picks. A few tips:
Add either household chores or family/roommate names to the wheel. Spin to randomly assign. You can spin two ways: add chores and each person spins to pick one, or add names and spin to assign chores to each person in turn.
Yes, in the sense that every slice on the wheel is the same size and the spin uses the browser’s Math.random(), so each entry has the same chance unless you deliberately add one twice. It is suitable for household use, but it is not cryptographically secure or independently audited.
Absolutely. Add all roommate names to the wheel and spin for each chore. Or add all chores and each roommate spins to pick their task for the week. Either method keeps things unbiased, since the wheel picks randomly.
Not automatically. The list you type lives only in the open page and resets when you reload it. After a spin you can copy a wheel link that stores up to 40 entries of up to 60 characters each, which is enough to return to the same setup each week if your list is short.
Yes, completely free. No sign-up, no download, no payment. Works on any device.
Group chores into effort tiers (quick vs. heavy) and spin separate wheels for each, or pair a heavy chore with a light one as a single wheel option so each spin balances out over time.
That is expected variance with Math.random() over a small number of spins. Rotate who spins first each week, or add duplicate entries for lighter chores to balance total effort across the month. For a more even spread over time, use the Weekly Rotation Schedule on this page, which moves every person one chore along your list each week so nobody keeps the same chore two weeks running.
Yes. Use the Weekly Rotation Schedule tool on this page — add your people and chores once, choose how many weeks to plan (1 to 26), and it generates a rotation table in which everyone shifts to the next chore each week. Export it as CSV or print it for the fridge.
The rotation table only has as many assignments per week as the smaller of the two lists. With 4 people and 6 chores, 2 chores have nobody that week and the leftover chores change as the weeks move on. With more people than chores, the people beyond the chore count do not appear in the table at all, so match the two lists or split the chores across two tables.
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