The core difference between email and Gmail is that email (also known as electric-mail) is a digital message that can be sent with the help of the internet while Gmail is an email service provider from Google.

In layman’s terms, email is your post and Gmail acts as your postal service provider including pick-up and drop services by a postman at your home. But, in this case, everything happens over the internet medium.

What is an email?

Email stands for electronic mail. This might include text, images, videos, URLs (links), documents, or a mixture of these things.  It can be exchanged between digital devices such as desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.

End-user can operate emails across the internet. Email is a pretty popular medium of modern communication. You can use an email composing interface with an active internet connection to send or receive emails.

What is Gmail?

Gmail is an email service tool provided by Google. It lets you compose, send, and receive emails on your electronic devices. Also, Gmail uses POP or IMAP protocols. These protocols help it retrieve email messages from a remote server.

Gmail has two major sections in it. Header and a body. The header section consists of details like the subject line of the email, who sent the email, and who received it. Where the body part contains the message and file attachments for the user.

It is one of the most dominant email services at this moment. Along with helping users load their emails on the internet or their devices, it has smooth integrations with Google Drive, Google Photos, YouTube, and many other enterprise-grade tools.

So, Gmail and Email are both different things. Email is what you send and Gmail is a service that helps you share what you want. electronically.