Most Popular Apps in Somalia 2020 — What are the Top 5 Apps in Somalia?

SOMALI DISCOVERY
5 min readNov 8, 2020

1- Dhaweeye is an somalian company that offers vehicles for hire, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation, and, through a partnership with Lime, electric bicycle and motorized scooter rental.It has created jobs for 6000+ drivers, connecting the driver and the client.

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  • You can dial Dial * 3000# or call 3000 without any smartphone or internet connection
  • Dhaweeye has more 100,000+ installs on playstore and appstore

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2- Bbc News Somali | more than the news in Somalia

BBC News| Somalia distinctive content is now easier and faster to access for free on your Android phone.
The app is simple to use, with stories in Af-Soomaali arranged into categories covering Latest News, In Somalia, International, Entertainment, Sport, Science and Multimedia.

You can also view all stories within the app in chronological order or according to their popularity among the users.

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Bbc News Somali has more 100,000+ installs on playstore and appstore

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3- (SOOMAR) is a Somalian company that provides an e-commerce service that is compatible with the understanding of the Somali people, is built in a simple and user-friendly way, contributes to the development of business in the country.

How the App works

The designed system is to agree business in, we emphasized the need to simplify system use and to create an information every business needs to be available, once it is in place you perform a service that you have for the community is never a market where you can buy everything you need.
You can download it and then buy it, and see what you need.
Entrepreneurs can also register and we will share their services with the community.
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  • be able to see the services, products that Hebel’s business has.
    -You can call directly within the same app
    -and you can send a message.
    -you can buy it.

SOOMAR has more 50,000+ installs on playstore
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4- Saamionline.com is a first and largest online shopping site in Somali regions established on 2014 in Hargeisa, Every wanted to shop everything in one place, at one time? We’ve created just the app for you! With thousands of brands and millions of items at an incredible value, Saamionline.com is the go to app for these in the know.

Shop what’s new & now from home to health, Tech to toys and sports to shoes ( Plus the hottest fashion around ) every day. And, Lets not forget all our deals! From flash & super deals to coupons and more, You can get the best items at the best prices in a swipe the are countless reasons to love shopping on Saamionline.com app but here are some of our favorite:

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* Free delivery
* Millions of trendy and unique items. Easy search — So you can find what you want quickly.
* Personalized feeds, with items picked especially for you.
* Buyer protection on all your purchases.
* Online secure payments

Saamionline.com has more 10,000+installs on playstore
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5-FanprojPlay is an on-demand video, Serials and Live TV streaming platform for Somali Originals & Dubbing language contents all over the World. You can subscribe to get access to over 5,000+ hours Movies and exclusive Original Shows with new content being added every day, week & month.

Benefits:

Exclusive Web Series
2000+ episodes of exclusive web series with new shows added every week.

Largest Catalogue of Somali language Movies
Watch a movie a day and you’d still need a couple of years to finish our catalogue. And we’ll keep adding more!

Download Offline
Watch anytime on the go — whether stuck in traffic or on a flight!

Other Features:
Small content size to reduce your data consumption and save space on your device.
Unlimited HD Streaming.
Create a Watch-list to bookmark movies and shows and watch them at a later time.
Continue Watching with same seekbar you have stopped your video
Cast your big screen with Chromecast.

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FanprojPlay has more 5,000+installs on playstore and appstore
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6- haatif.com is a New Somalian online social media and social networking service based in Somalia. Haatif is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Somali-speakers.

haatif allows users to message each other publicly or privately; create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games.

Features

  • Messaging. haatif Private Messages can be exchanged between groups of 2 to 500 people. An email address can also be specified as the recipient. Each message may contain up to 10 attachments: Photos, Videos, Audio Files, Maps (an embedded map with a manually placed marker), and Documents.
  • News. haatif users can post on their profile walls, each post may contain up to 10 attachments — media files, maps, and documents (see above). User mentions and hashtags are supported. In case of multiple photo-attachments the previews are automatically scaled and arranged in a magazine-style layout. The news feed can be switched between all news (default) and most interesting modes. The site features a news-recommendation engine, global real-time search and individual search for posts and comments on specific users’ walls.
  • Communities. haatif features three types of communities. Groups are better suited for decentralised communities (discussion-boards, wiki-style articles, editable by all members, etc.). Public pages is a news feed-orientated broadcasting tool for celebrities and businesses. The two types are largely interchangeable, the main difference being in the default settings. The third type of community is called Events, which are used for organizing concerts and events in an appropriate way.

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