Cohiva Control vs Limble CMMS: an honest comparison
Limble CMMS and Cohiva Control are both modern maintenance systems, and a maintenance manager would feel at home in either. The question that separates them is whether your assets need to leave the maintenance system to be depreciated, or stay in it. This page lays out the differences plainly and gives Limble fair credit for what it does well.
At a glance
| Capability | Cohiva Control | Limble CMMS |
|---|---|---|
| Asset register and work orders | Yes | Yes |
| Preventive maintenance | Yes | Yes |
| Inspections and parts | Yes | Yes |
| Onboarding and ease of use | Yes | Yes, a noted strength |
| Fixed-asset depreciation in the same system | Yes, six methods including AASB 16 | Not the product’s focus |
| Posts depreciation journals to your ledger | Yes | Not the product’s focus |
| Contractor gate with no override | Yes, a hard 422 | As the product allows |
| Data isolation | Database per tenant | As the vendor provides |
The Limble column is category framing, not a roadmap audit. Confirm current capability and pricing on their site.
Where Limble is strong
Limble has a strong reputation for onboarding. Teams report getting set up quickly and getting technicians using it without a heavy rollout, and the interface is clean and approachable. For a maintenance operation whose main concern is adoption speed and day-to-day usability, and whose finance team depreciates assets in a separate system, Limble is a well-supported and credible choice. If that describes you, picking Limble is a reasonable decision.
Where Cohiva Control is strong
Cohiva Control’s differentiator is that maintenance and finance share one record. The asset you maintain is the asset you depreciate. The depreciation engine runs six methods, straight-line, diminishing value, double declining balance, units of production, sum of years digits and AASB 16 leases, and each monthly run is idempotent, writes to an append-only ledger and can post journals to Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite or Cohiva Crunch. Money is a fixed-precision decimal rounded half up, never a floating point number, and depreciation never reduces book value below residual.
Operationally, the contractor-compliance gate is enforced rather than suggested. A contractor with expired, missing or unverified public liability insurance, trade licence or site induction cannot be assigned to a work order; the block is a hard 422 with no override. Work orders move through a server-enforced state machine, and every transition writes an append-only history row. Cohiva Control is database per tenant, giving each operator an isolated database.
Choose Cohiva Control if
- You want maintenance and fixed-asset depreciation in one system, with journals posted to your ledger.
- You need a hard, non-overridable contractor-compliance gate.
- You value an append-only audit and depreciation ledger and per-tenant isolation.
- You are an AU or NZ operator needing AASB 16 lease treatment.
Choose Limble if
- Your top priority is fast onboarding and ease of use for the maintenance team.
- Your finance function depreciates assets separately and you want a focused maintenance tool.
Part of the Cohiva platform
Cohiva Control is part of the Cohiva platform. Leisure operators often run it with Cohiva Complex, and finance teams connect it to Cohiva Crunch for the general ledger. Explore the platform at www.cohiva.app.