The longer answer
Mango Languages is the app you may already have for free through your public library, and its catalogue is one of the widest, more than seventy languages including Swahili, Igbo, Malayalam, Pashto and Dari. It also offers English courses written for speakers of other languages, and one of those is English for Somali speakers.
That is where the confusion comes from: search results show "Somali" on Mango's site, but the course teaches English to Somali speakers, not Somali to anyone. There is no Somali course for English speakers as of September 2026.
For a diaspora family this is backwards. The children already speak English; it is Somali they need. Luuqad teaches Somali from the first tap, with native audio and illustrations of Somali life.
What to use instead
For children and families, Luuqad is built only for Somali: 18 real-life topics, 250 words and phrases with native-speaker audio, a quiz for every topic, 12 games and a Grown-ups area. It is free to download on iPhone and iPad. Browse every word it teaches before you install anything.
For adults who want a large travel vocabulary fast, uTalk, Ling, LinGo Play also offer Somali content. Our alternatives page compares all of them honestly.