How OhRec started

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

Last updated August 2026

The problem

The founder of Wekify LLC — which owns Peacae, and OhRec (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 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.

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.