How to make a chore chart
- List the people in your household and the chores to share, one per line.
- Set how many weeks the rota should cover. Each week, everyone moves on to the next chore, so jobs rotate fairly.
- Press Shuffle fairly for a different random starting order, then print the rota for the fridge or share the page link.
- For one-off jobs, pick a chore and spin the wheel to decide who does it.
Fair by design
Arguments about chores are usually about fairness. The rota uses a simple round-robin: in week 1 the first chore goes to the first person, the second to the second, and so on; each following week everyone shifts by one. Over as many weeks as there are people, everyone does every chore, so nobody is always stuck with the bathroom. If there are more chores than people, some people get two jobs a week, and those extra jobs rotate too.
The wheel uses your browser's cryptographically secure random number generator, so the result is genuinely unpredictable and not influenced by who spins. The rota and the people's names are stored in the page link (not on a server), so a shared or bookmarked link shows the same chart. Use it for families, flatmates, roommates, office kitchens or classroom jobs.
What if someone is away for a week?
Remove them for that week, or swap jobs by agreement. The printed chart is a starting point.
Can I give bigger chores more weight?
Split large jobs into smaller ones (for example "Bathroom sink" and "Bathroom floor") so they rotate evenly.
Is the wheel really random?
Yes. It uses crypto.getRandomValues, and every person has an equal chance.