Tell webmail from a mail app
Whether you are reading your mail through a browser or through an app, and why that is all it changes.
Webmail means reading your mail on a website, through a browser. A mail app is a program on the device that fetches the same mail.
The mailbox is the same either way. Only the door is different.
Key points
- Webmail is your mailbox on a website, opened in a browser
- A mail app is a program showing you that same mailbox
What to remember
- A web address at the top means webmail.
- One mailbox, two doors into it.
Try this
Open your mail the way you usually do and look for a web address at the top.
Practice: Tell webmail from a mail app. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.