Enter your Gmail address and instantly get a set of dot-variant and plus-tag alias addresses. Gmail ignores dots in the local part and anything after a + sign, so every variant delivers straight to your normal inbox — useful for filtering, tracking who shares your address, or signing up for one-time offers.
Google made an early decision that dots don't count as meaningful characters in the local part of a Gmail address — jordan.lee@gmail.com, jordanlee@gmail.com and j.o.r.d.a.n.lee@gmail.com all route to the exact same inbox. Separately, Gmail (and most modern mail systems that follow the same convention) treats anything after a + sign in the local part as a tag that's ignored for delivery purposes but preserved in the To: field, so jordan.lee+amazon@gmail.com also lands in your normal inbox with the +amazon tag intact. It's worth noting that not every website supports plus-tagged sign-ins reliably for future logins, since some login systems cache only your original, plain address, so reserving plus-tags for signups and newsletters rather than accounts you'll log into often is a reasonable default.
This tool generates a batch of both variant types from your real address: dot placements (useful mainly as a demonstration, since the dots make no functional difference) and plus-tags for common categories like shopping, newsletters and signups, which you can customize by simply changing the text after the + when you actually use one.
The most common real use is source-tracking: sign up for a retailer's newsletter with yourname+retailer@gmail.com, and if that specific tagged address starts receiving spam later, you know exactly which company leaked, sold, or was breached with your data. You can also combine plus-tags with Gmail's filter rules to automatically label, archive, or forward mail sent to a specific tag — for example, auto-labeling everything sent to yourname+work@gmail.com. Combined with even a handful of filters, this turns a single inbox into something close to a lightweight routing system, without needing separate mailboxes or server-side forwarding rules.
No — the dot-insensitivity and plus-tag behavior are specific to Gmail and Google Workspace. Other providers like Outlook.com and Yahoo generally treat dots as meaningful and may not support plus-tags the same way, so this trick doesn't transfer.
Most do, since a + sign is valid in the local part of an email address per the email format standard, but some poorly built signup forms use overly strict validation that rejects it. If a form rejects your tagged address, fall back to your plain address for that signup.
The base address before the + is fully visible in a plus-tagged address, so it doesn't hide your identity — it's a filtering and tracking tool, not a privacy or anonymity tool.
No — Gmail treats them as fully identical to your address with no dots at all. They're shown here mainly to demonstrate the behavior; the plus-tag variants are the genuinely useful ones for day-to-day filtering.
No. A plus-tagged Gmail address is permanent and always reaches your real inbox — it can't be turned off or blocked at the alias level the way a true disposable inbox can, only filtered or labeled.