You're testing an early version of Dibs. Nothing here is shared with anyone.

Call dibs on the to-do list.

Somebody has to remember the field trip form, the dentist, and trash night. Connect your email and calendar, and Dibs pulls those to-dos into one list your whole household shares. Everyone calls dibs on their part, and Dibs sends the reminders.

Start calling dibs

How it works

Three steps, and the last one's the fun part.

  1. Add your crewInvite the people you split the to-dos with. Kids and Grandma too. There's no limit.
  2. Fill the pileConnect your email and calendar. Dibs spots the to-dos on its own, and you okay each one before it's added.
  3. Call dibsTap Dibs on what you'll handle. Whatever's left goes to whoever has the lightest week. Dibs sends the reminders, so nobody has to nag.

Try it

Pretend you live with Sam and Riley. Pick a player, then tap Dibs.

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Y0You
S0Sam
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    Dibs saves just the task and the date, never the whole email. Your household sees the shared list, not your inbox or calendar. No ads, and we never sell your data.

    Start calling dibs

    Why we built it

    You're testing an early version of Dibs. Nothing here is shared with anyone.

    The numbers

    Men and women both work hard to keep a home running. They just don't always see each other doing it.

    672,502

    divorces were recorded in the U.S. in 2023. That's 2.4 for every 1,000 people.

    CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (45 reporting states and D.C.)
    62%

    of Americans say sharing household chores is very important to a good marriage. That's third out of nine, ahead of money and kids.

    Pew Research Center, 2007
    75%of men87%of women

    do some housework, cooking, yard work, or household planning on an average day. Pretty much everybody's pitching in.

    U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey, 2025 results
    55%

    of U.S. marriages have a husband who's the main or only earner. Even when they earn about the same, husbands work more paid hours and wives do more housework and caregiving.

    Pew Research Center, 2023 (2022 data)
    100%+

    is the total when a husband and wife each guess their own share of the household work. Nobody's lying. You just remember your own work best.

    Ross & Sicoly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979 (37 married couples)

    Divorce papers don't have a box for "never remembers trash night," so nobody knows exactly how many marriages end over chores. What researchers do know is that when the split feels unfair, relationships suffer.

    In one U.S. study, husbands and wives who thought the housework split was unfair were less happy in their marriages. Another found that feeling appreciated takes some of the sting out of an uneven split.

    How it affects kids

    Nearly 1 in 3

    American kids see their parents divorce before they grow up.

    Johnston, Jones & Pope, NBER and U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 (5 million+ kids born 1988 to 1993)
    25%parents divorced10%parents stayed together

    of kids had serious social, emotional, or psychological problems as adults. Most kids of divorce turn out fine, but the risk is real.

    Hetherington & Kelly, For Better or for Worse, 2002 (25-year study)

    It's not only the divorce itself. In one long-running study, kids from high-conflict marriages did better as young adults after their parents split up, while kids from calmer marriages that ended did worse. How parents get along matters to kids, whether they stay together or not.

    Fair doesn't mean 50/50.

    If one person works longer hours, a different split can be totally fair. Trouble starts when someone's work goes unnoticed. The long shift counts. So does remembering the dentist. Dibs makes sure everyone's part gets seen.

    My story

    I'm Alec Matyas, the founder of Dibs, and everything I know about hard work, I learned from my parents.

    My dad was a corrections officer who often worked double and triple shifts so our family had what we needed, and somehow he never missed one of our games or practices. My mom worked as a caregiver for older adults while running our entire household. She paid the bills, did the shopping, drove my brother and me to school and practice every day, and kept our home spotless.

    They gave everything they had, usually on opposite schedules, so they didn't always get to see how much the other was doing. That led to some hard moments, and during some of them, the word "divorce" got thrown around.

    Kids notice more than adults realize. When a child hears that word, it doesn't matter that it came from two exhausted people at the end of a long day. What sticks is the fear that their family might not stay together.

    Thankfully, my parents are still together, and they're still the hardest-working people I know. For many families, though, the outcome is different. That's why I'm building Dibs: so the people in a home can see what everyone is doing, and nobody's hard work goes unnoticed. And if it means fewer kids grow up worrying about their parents, that's what matters most to me.

    Alec Matyas, founder of Dibs

    Okay, let's fix it
    Sources
    1. CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, FastStats: Marriage and Divorce (provisional 2023 data, 45 reporting states and D.C.).
    2. Pew Research Center, "Modern Marriage," July 2007.
    3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey, 2025 results.
    4. Pew Research Center, "In a Growing Share of U.S. Marriages, Husbands and Wives Earn About the Same," April 2023.
    5. Ross, M. & Sicoly, F. (1979). Egocentric Biases in Availability and Attribution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37(3), 322–336.
    6. Frisco, M. L. & Williams, K. (2003). Perceived Housework Equity, Marital Happiness, and Divorce in Dual-Earner Households. Journal of Family Issues.
    7. Gordon, A. M. et al. (2022). Feeling Appreciated Buffers against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor. Psychological Science.
    8. Johnston, A. C., Jones, M. R. & Pope, N. G. (2025). Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children's Adult Outcomes. NBER Working Paper 33776; U.S. Census Bureau CES Working Paper 25-28.
    9. Hetherington, E. M. & Kelly, J. (2002). For Better or for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered. W. W. Norton.
    10. Amato, P. R., Loomis, L. S. & Booth, A. (1995). Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-being during Early Adulthood. Social Forces, 73(3), 895–915.

    Tell Alec what you think

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