Mobile App Vs Mobile Website

Many people are confused between an application and a mobile website. The biggest differences are:
New visitors or first-time customers usually will not download an application to their phone, while regular customers may find adding an app to their phones more convenient than trying to navigate the website on their phones. Touching an icon may be easier on an app than using “fat fingers” to navigate links on a website.
A mobile website is usually fairly easy to design because it is a scaled down version of the normal website style sheet and functionality. The right version of the website is displayed for the device based on the screen size and resolution of the device using “device detection software”.