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Chore Rota Generator

Make a chore rota that is actually fair. Add the people in your household and the jobs that need doing, and the rota rotates each chore between everyone week by week. Print it for the fridge or share the link so the whole household sees the same plan.

Chore rota generator by OneHaus. A fair rotating chore chart for your household.

People (chores rotate between everyone)

Chores (the recurring jobs to share out)

BinsBathroomKitchenHooveringDishwasher

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Add the people and chores above, and the rota below rotates each job between everyone week by week so it stays fair over time.

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Our Chore Rota

Add at least one person above to fill in the rota. Each chore will rotate between everyone, week by week.

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Why a rotating rota beats a fixed one

A fixed chore list always ends up feeling unfair. Whoever gets stuck with the bins or the bathroom every week notices, and resentment builds long before anyone says anything. A rotating rota fixes this at the source: the unpopular jobs move to a different person each week, so over a month everyone has taken a turn at the worst of it and the best of it.

This matters most for flatmates and house shares, where there is no parent setting the rules and chores are the single biggest source of friction. A printed rota everyone agreed to takes the awkward nagging out of it. The rota is the authority, not one flatmate, and the rotation makes it obviously even.

It works just as well for couples and families splitting the load. Rotating the cooking, the school run or the weekly clean stops one person quietly carrying more than their share, which is the mental load that wears people down even when the visible work looks balanced.

This is different from a kids' chore chart, which is built around sticker rewards and age-appropriate jobs for one child. A rota is for grown-up households dividing real, recurring work between equals. If you want a reward-led chart for younger children instead, use the chore chart maker.

How to set up a chore rota that sticks

List the people first. Add everyone who shares the work, then add every recurring job, from the bins and the bathroom to hoovering and emptying the dishwasher. Keeping the job names short makes the printed rota easy to scan.

Show a few weeks at once. Print four weeks so everyone can see their turn coming rather than checking week by week. Seeing the rotation laid out is what makes it feel fair, because the pattern is visible.

Put it where everyone looks. Print it for the fridge or the kitchen wall, or share the link so it lives on everyone's phone. A rota nobody can see is a rota nobody follows.

Let it run itself. The point of a rota is that you set it once and stop arguing. OneHaus takes this further by auto-rotating chores for the whole household and reminding the right person each week, so the turn lands on someone's phone without anyone having to chase. To pressure-test whether your split is genuinely even, run it through the chore fairness calculator.

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FAQ

Chore rota FAQ

Common questions about building and printing a fair chore rota.

A chore rota is a schedule that shares household jobs between everyone and rotates who does what each week, so the same person is not stuck with the worst chores every time. It is the grown-up version of a chore chart, built for flatmates, couples and families splitting recurring work fairly.

Each chore shifts to the next person every week. If three of you share four jobs, the person on the bins this week takes a different job next week, and so on, so over time everyone takes a turn at every chore. That even spread is what makes a rota feel fair rather than fixed.

Use the Print / Save PDF button to print your rota or save it as a PDF for the fridge. Choose landscape in your print dialog so the week columns fit across the page. You can also download it as an image to share.

Yes. Your rota is saved into the page link as you build it, so the Share link button copies a link that reopens with everything filled in. Nothing is stored on a server, so the link is yours to send to the whole household.

A chore chart is usually built for children, with reward stickers and age-appropriate jobs for one child. A rota is for adults sharing recurring work as equals, with jobs rotating each week so it stays even. For a reward-led chart for kids, use the chore chart maker; to check your split is balanced, try the chore fairness calculator.

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