How OhRec App started

Why Wekify built a local-first screen recorder for Peacae — from Peacae Recorder to OhRec App — and how it connects to Kifuliiru language work.

Last updated August 2026

The problem

Ayivugwe Kabemba Mukome, founder and lead developer of Wekify LLC — which owns Peacae, and OhRec App (formerly Peacae Recorder) as part of that product family — needed a straightforward way to capture videos and share them across many projects.

Plenty of tools can record screen or webcam video, but most come with trade-offs: vendor lock-in, cloud-only storage, or recordings you cannot download even from your own machine. With limited funds to pay for every tool he would need, he decided to build one.

Language technology and Kifuliiru

Much of the work behind Wekify centers on language technologies that need to be shown to people easily, with less friction and without money getting in the way. Today that focus is on Kifuliiru, the founder's mother tongue.

He has built many tools for Kifuliiru and runs Kifuliiru Lab for the full body of work around the language, plus platforms including:

  • Kifuliiru.com — The main platform to discover Kifuliiru and much more
  • Imyazi — News in Kifuliiru, English, French, and Kiswahili
  • Tabula Kifuliiru — A contribution platform for preserving Kifuliiru
  • Lola Kifuliiru — Social media for the Kifuliiru community
  • Kifuliiru FM — Part of Lola; audio recordings from Tabula Kifuliiru
  • Ganuula — Speak or talk; also part of Lola, where people share what they know in Kifuliiru
  • Kifuliiru Data Engines — Generating data and advanced research for Kifuliiru
  • KObs & KLaSAn — Kifuliiru Observatory and Language Simulator and Analyzer
  • Plus mobile apps and more.

Demonstrating that work — in demos, tutorials, and community updates — is where a simple recorder became essential.

Peacae Recorder → OhRec

Building a recorder for that job was the right call. Peacae Recorder was born. Later it became OhRec: Oh! Just Record!!— That's it.

OhRec mark: a blue video frame with a glowing record disc in the center — a live camera on a screen
The OhRec mark — a video frame and a live record disc. The glow means the camera is on.

OhRec runs in your browser today: record screen, tab, or webcam; manage a local library; and edit in OhRec Studio without sending files to a server.

The mark

The OhRec mark is a landscape video frame with a record disc punched through the center. The frame is the screen or camera you capture. The glow in the middle is a live lens — the camera is on.

That is the goal of the tool: record what is happening now, on this device, without sending it away. The mark is not an audio waveform. The same drawing is used in the header, the favicon, About, and the OhRec mark post.

Other Peacae products

Beyond the Kifuliiru ecosystem, Wekify builds other focused tools as needed — including Peacae Resume, a modern letter-page resume builder that is simple to use but powerful, and OhRec, this platform.