A chore wheel that is fair by design
The chore chart generator works like a chore wheel on paper. Enter the people and the chores, and it builds a schedule where the jobs rotate every week or every day. The starting order is drawn at random, so nobody can complain about who got the worst job first.
The rotation is mathematically even: in each period everyone gets the same number of chores (or at most one more than someone else), and over a full cycle every person does every chore equally often. Add a start date to see real dates and to highlight this week, then print the chart or copy it into a family chat.
How to use
- Enter the people and the chores, one per line.
- Choose to rotate weekly or daily and how many weeks or days to plan.
- Optional: pick a start date to show dates and highlight the current week.
- Press New random start to redraw who begins with which chore.
- Press Print chart (or Save as PDF) or Copy as text.
Ideas for using it
- Kids at home. dishes, trash, feeding the pet and tidying the living room rotate every week.
- Roommates. bathroom, kitchen, vacuuming and recycling – nobody is stuck with the bathroom twice in a row.
- Classroom jobs. line leader, board cleaner, plant waterer and messenger rotate daily.
- Office. coffee machine, dishwasher and plants for a small team, printed by the sink.
How the rotation works
After the random draw, the people stand in a fixed order. In week 1 the first chore goes to the first person, the second chore to the second person, and so on, wrapping around if there are more chores than people. Each new week everyone moves one step along the list. With 4 people the cycle repeats every 4 weeks, and by then each person has done each chore exactly once. If there are fewer chores than people, some people get a week off – and the week off rotates too.