What is the difference between a regular app and a web app? Does iOS have WebApps or is just an Android thing?

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What is the difference between a regular app and a web app? Does iOS have WebApps or is just an Android thing? - Lemmy.world

I’ve been using wefwef WebApps to browse the fediverse and am curious to understand how it works. I do not have knowledge deep knowledge about coding or programming.

Thank you all so much for your detailed responses. I understand much better now.