How to Read Your Weekly Fairness Report in EvenUS

Read your weekly report from the top down: first the direction things moved, then where the load sits in hours, then the one suggestion for this week. The number itself matters least. A household that is improving is in a better place than one with a higher score that is sliding, and the report is built to show that. If a warning appears at the top, read that instead of the trend, because it means the trend cannot be trusted this week.

Here is what each part means, how to check it, and what is worth doing about it.

What is in the weekly report?

One sentence about direction, a picture of where the work sits, one suggestion, and a prompt for your private check-in. The overall score is deliberately one tap away rather than at the top of the This week tab.

On Sunday at 6pm, household time, both of you get a notification titled "Your week in review", with a single headline. The This week tab shows the week in this order:

1. A warning, when there is one. It replaces the trend line entirely.
2. The trend. One sentence about which way the week moved.
3. The gap. Where the household load sits, measured in hours.
4. This week's idea. One swap: who, what, and why now.
5. Your check-in. Two private questions about how the week felt.
6. Recent activity. What was logged, marked by who did it.

The Insights tab has the more detailed screens: Time, Money, and where the two of you see things differently. Each one shows its working.

Why is the score not the first thing you see?

Because a number at the top of a shared screen reads as a verdict, and the first person to open the app gets to deliver it.

A fairness score between two people is easy to turn into a weapon. "We're at 58" sounds like an accusation, even when nobody meant one. The direction is more useful and much harder to argue with. A household at 60 and improving gets a warmer screen than one at 75 and declining, because movement is what you can actually influence this week.

If you want the full breakdown of how the score is built, how the EvenUS fairness score works covers the model. This article is about reading the output.

How do you read the time section?

Follow the sum from 168 hours down to the hours each of you had left, and check each line. If you disagree with the result, you should be able to point at the line you disagree with.

Take Priya and Tom. Both sleep about 56 hours a week and spend around 14 on eating, washing and getting dressed, which leaves 98 hours each. Then:

So 98 minus 40, minus 5, minus 22, minus 7 leaves Priya with 24. Tom's 98 minus 40, minus 7, minus 17, minus 3 leaves 31. The gap is seven hours a week.

The useful question is not who is right but which line looks wrong to either of you. If Tom thinks his household figure is low, the likely cause is unlogged work, not a dishonest partner. If Priya's planning line surprises him, look at the areas behind it: she holds meal planning and school admin, and each area carries an estimated number of hours a week for keeping it in mind, counted the same as any other hours. Nothing is multiplied. What the mental load is explains why that time is real.

How do you read the money section?

It is a separate axis and is never converted into hours. It asks whether each of you contributes in line with your chosen split, and whether each of you has personal money left once the shared costs are paid.

Say Priya takes home £3,000 a month and Tom £2,000, and shared costs are £2,000. On a proportional split, the default, Priya's share is 3,000 out of 5,000, or 60%, so £1,200. Tom's is 40%, so £800. Priya has £1,800 left and Tom has £1,200.

The screen shows that sum line by line, with one difference: each of you sees your own take-home and what you keep in full, and the other person’s only as a share of what you earn together (60% and 40% here), never the amount. What’s left over shows as how it divides between you, 60% and 40%. If the "left over" line looks too thin for one of you, the report says so about the arrangement, never about the person. You can switch to “Split evenly”, “Split what's spare” (a personal floor first) or “End up with the same” (both finish with the same left over). Splitting bills when you earn different amounts works through all four.

What does "seen differently" mean?

It shows where your two answers about the same part of home life do not match, with both answers given equal weight. There is no vote and no ruling.

If Priya says the social calendar is mostly hers and Tom says it is shared, neither is lying. Each of you sees your own effort in full and your partner's only in pieces. The finding is not "who is right" but "which part of this do I not see you doing". That question is answerable, and it is often the most productive conversation the report produces.

What do the warnings mean?

A warning means the normal score would mislead you this week, so it is replaced. These are the ones you are most likely to meet:

• Both overloaded. You may be perfectly even and both have very few hours left. Balanced is not the same as fine, and the report says so instead of awarding a high score for symmetry.
• Thin data. Too little was logged for a confident reading. Do the weekly catch-up and look again next week.
• Stale logging. Entries stopped. The person doing the most is often the one with the least time to log it, so missing entries are treated as missing information, not as no work.
• Planning not in yet. Only one of you has finished the questions about who keeps track of what. Planning hours are left out until you both have, so the two phones always show the same number.

How do you improve your weekly fairness report?

Do three small things: log the week, answer the check-in, and consider the one suggestion. Trying to push the number up directly does not work and is not the point.

Log the whole week in one go

The catch-up screen pre-ticks recurring chores against their usual owner. You untick anything that did not happen, set how long your own chores really took, and tap Log these. It takes a minute or so each, and it fixes most thin-data and stale-logging warnings. How to track mental load covers the planning tasks people forget to add.

Answer the two private questions

"How fair did this week feel to you?" and "How was your week overall?" Your answers are readable only by you, which is enforced in the database rather than just hidden on screen. They are a record for you of how the week felt, which is often where the real story is. They are not used in any score or weekly suggestion.

Treat the suggestion as a question

The idea names one swap and the reason, such as a chore moving to the partner with a lighter Saturday. You try it for two weeks, or you say "Not this one", and no note goes to your partner about it. If it shows up and you both agree, that is the single most effective thing the report can lead to.

What should you ignore?

Small week-to-week wobbles in the score. A birthday, a work trip or a sick child will move it. Look at the direction over three or four weeks instead.

Also ignore any urge to compare your score with other couples. It is never shared publicly, and a household that has decided one partner does more at home while the other covers more of the bills has a real arrangement, not a problem. If you are new, your first 30 days with EvenUS sets out what the early reports usually look like.

Common questions

When does the weekly report arrive?

On Sunday at 6pm, household time, as the week ends. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and both partners get the same headline if they have the weekly summary notification switched on.

Can my partner see my check-in answers?

No. Check-in answers are readable only by the person who gave them, and they cannot be edited later.

Why did our score drop when nothing changed?

Usually because less was logged, or the planning hours were added once you had both answered the questions about who keeps track of what. Check the time screen for the line that moved before assuming the week was worse.

Can I try the maths without the app?

Yes. The household fairness calculator runs the same discretionary-hours sum in your browser, with no account and nothing stored.