Is There a Fair Play Cards App? Here's What Actually Exists

Short answer: not officially, not the way you're probably picturing it. Eve Rodsky's Fair Play system has a free digital reference and a small cluster of paid apps that borrow its name, but there is no app — official or not — that just is the card deck on your phone, shared and editable by both of you, for free. Here's what's actually out there, and what each option costs you before you pick one.

What "digital Fair Play" actually means right now

The Fair Play deck is 100 physical cards split into five suits — Home, Out, Caregiving, Magic, and Wild — each one a task with an agreed Conception, Planning, Execution, and Minimum Standard of Care attached, so "I did the dishes" and "the kitchen is actually clean" stop being two different arguments. It's worth knowing the deck itself started life as a spreadsheet: Rodsky's original project was called "Sh*t I Do," a plain list of the invisible work running a household takes, before it became a card game. The paper version has always been a stand-in for something people wanted to track together.

Three things exist today that answer "can I do this without the box of cards":

The official free version — a lookup table, not a shared tool. Fair Play's own site lets you click through all 100 cards for free, and there's a free printable PDF of a mini deck. That's genuinely useful if you've lost a card or want to browse before buying. What it doesn't do is let the two of you jointly hold, assign, or reassign cards over time from your own phones — it's a reference you both visit, not a board you both edit.

DIY digital versions, built because nothing official does this. People have already made a Notion template around the book and deck, and there's a more polished interactive Fair Play doc floating around built in Superhuman. These exist precisely because the gap is real — couples want a living, shared version of this and are willing to hand-build one rather than wait for an official app.

A new wave of paid apps riding the name. 2026 has produced several subscription apps clearly inspired by (but not officially affiliated with) Fair Play — FairPlay: Chores for Couples, FairShare: Couples Mental Load, Chore Wars: For Couples, and Couple Duel among them. FairPlay: Chores for Couples deals chores as cards, tracks the balance of effort, and runs weekly check-ins — closest in spirit to the real thing. It also requires a subscription for full access, and like the others, generally expects both partners to have an account.

What you actually give up for the convenience

None of this makes the paid apps bad — reminders, notifications, and a synced view on two phones solve a real problem the paper deck doesn't. But it's worth being clear-eyed about the trade before you hand over a card number:

• Two accounts, one relationship. Most of these apps want both of you signed up, which means your household's division-of-labor data — who does what, how often, who's behind — now lives on a company's server under two separate logins.
• A subscription for a conversation you already had for free. The actual value of Fair Play is the conversation the cards force you to have. Paying monthly to keep seeing the outcome of that conversation is a different product than the one you agreed to when you bought the deck.
• What happens if you cancel. A spreadsheet or a Notion board you built yourselves doesn't stop existing if you stop paying anyone. An app-based tracker usually does.

Three questions before you pay for one

• Do you need real-time sync, or just a shared place to look? If you're mostly checking in once a week, a shared note or spreadsheet does the job a $/month app does.
• Are you both fine with a company holding this specific data? Household task-and-resentment logs are a more personal category than most people register at signup.
• Is losing track of cards the actual problem — or is the split itself uneven? An app can track an unfair split just as faithfully as a fair one. It doesn't fix the division; it just makes it visible faster.

Why we're building this differently

This is exactly the gap FOKL exists to close. Two people describe a shared tool in plain language — in this case, something that holds Fair Play's 100 cards, tracks who owns what, and lets either of you update it — and it runs on your own devices, with nothing to subscribe to and no second account for your partner to create. It's the same shape as FOKL's own origin story: two people who kept losing track of who was doing what, so they built the tool that fit them instead of adjusting to one built for someone else.

FOKL is still pre-launch, so there's nothing to click through yet — but if a shared Fair Play board without the subscription or the two accounts is a problem you'd like solved, the waitlist at fokl.ai is where we're keeping the people we're building it for.

FAQ

Is there an official Fair Play cards app?

No. Eve Rodsky's official site offers a free digital reference — you can browse and click through all 100 cards online, and there's a free printable PDF of a mini deck — but it's a lookup table, not a shared, editable app the two of you use together.

Can you do Fair Play without buying the physical deck?

Yes. The full card list is browsable for free at Fair Play's own site, and a free printable PDF mini-deck is available. What you lose without the physical cards is the tactile hand-off ritual the system is built around — literally passing a card to your partner.

What's the difference between the real Fair Play system and apps like "FairPlay: Chores for Couples"?

The apps riding the Fair Play name (FairPlay: Chores for Couples, FairShare: Couples Mental Load, Chore Wars, Couple Duel) aren't officially affiliated with Eve Rodsky's system. They borrow the card-game framing but are separate, subscription-based products that generally need both partners to have an account.

Can couples track Fair Play digitally for free?

Not with an official, purpose-built app. The free routes are the official card lookup, a printable PDF, or a DIY option — a shared Notion board or spreadsheet couples build themselves, which several people have already done publicly.

Do you need both partners to have an account for a Fair Play app?

For the paid apps currently available, generally yes — that's the norm for shared task-tracking apps, since both people need to see and update the same data. It's also the exact trade-off worth weighing before subscribing: is a synced app worth a company holding both your accounts, or would a tool you own together work just as well?