Enter your Gmail address and this free tool creates its dot variations (your.name@gmail.com) and plus-tag variations (yourname+shopping@gmail.com) — all of them deliver to the same inbox, because Gmail ignores dots and everything after a +. Use them to organize mail with filters and to track which service shares your address. Everything runs in your browser: the address you type is never sent or stored anywhere.
Gmail Variants Generator
Dot variations + your own plus tags — every variant lands in the same inbox. Your address is processed locally and never leaves this page.
What Is a Gmail Variants Generator?
Gmail reads addresses in its own way — and Google documents this openly in its help pages. Before deciding which inbox a message belongs to, Gmail throws away two kinds of decoration:
- Dots don't count.
yourname@gmail.com,your.name@gmail.comandy.o.u.r.name@gmail.comare one and the same inbox. A dot can go in any gap of the name — or none at all. - Everything after a plus doesn't count (for delivery).
yourname+shopping@gmail.comlands inyourname@gmail.comtoo — but the tag remains visible in the To line, which is what makes it genuinely useful for sorting.
This tool writes out the variants for you: every dot placement of your name, plus one address per tag you choose. It creates alternative spellings of an address you already own — not new accounts, and not new inboxes.
How Many Variants Does Your Name Have?
Every gap between two letters is a yes/no choice for a dot, so a name with n letters has 2n−1 spellings:
| Name length | Total spellings |
|---|---|
| 5 letters | 16 |
| 8 letters | 128 |
| 10 letters | 512 |
| 12 letters | 2,048 |
| 15 letters | 16,384 |
For very long names the tool shows a generous working set of spellings (up to about 4,000) and tells you the true total — a full list of 16,384 lines helps nobody. The plus tags are the practical part: a handful of meaningful tags beats thousands of numbered ones.
How to Use This Tool (Step by Step)
- Enter your Gmail address. Dots and an existing
+tagin what you type are stripped automatically — the tool rebuilds from your clean base name. - Choose your variants — dot variations, plus-tag variations, or both.
- Write your own tags, comma-separated: the services and categories you actually use (
amazon, netflix, work, bank). Up to 50. - Generate, then copy or download the list, one address per line, original first.
- Put the tags to work with Gmail filters — the next section shows how.
Make Variants Actually Useful: Gmail Filters
A plus tag alone changes nothing — the payoff comes from a 1-minute filter. In Gmail: click the slider icon in the search bar → put the variant (for example yourname+shopping@gmail.com) in the To field → Create filter → choose "Apply the label: Shopping" (and optionally "Skip Inbox"). From then on, everything sent to that tag files itself. One filter per tag turns one inbox into a sorted set of streams: work, shopping, newsletters, banking.
What Variants Are Good For
| Use | How it works |
|---|---|
| Automatic organization | One tag per category + one filter per tag = mail that labels and files itself. |
| Finding who leaked your address | Give each service its own tag (+servicename). If spam starts arriving at one tagged address, you know exactly which service shared, sold, or lost it. |
| Cutting a stream without unsubscribing wars | Filter one noisy tag straight to trash or archive; the rest of your inbox is untouched. |
| Testing your own forms and apps | Developers use variants to submit the same test inbox repeatedly while keeping each run's mail identifiable by tag. |
Honest Limits — Please Read
These are not new email accounts. Every variant is your one address in a different spelling; all mail arrives in the same inbox, and Google counts them as the same account. Many large websites know this too: they normalize Gmail addresses (stripping dots and tags) or reject the + character in forms, so a variant may simply not be accepted as a "different" address — that is their choice to make, and this tool does not change it. Sending is different from receiving: replies go out from your real address; to send from a variant you must first add it under Gmail Settings → Accounts → "Send mail as". And the dot rule is guaranteed for personal @gmail.com addresses — on work or school (Google Workspace custom-domain) accounts, dots can behave differently.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Gmail really treat all these variants as the same address?
Yes — this is Google's own documented behaviour. Dots in a @gmail.com name are ignored completely, and anything after a + is ignored for delivery (but kept visible, which is what makes filtering by tag possible).
Can I reply or send from a variant?
Replies go out from your real address by default. If you want to send from a variant, add it first in Gmail Settings → Accounts and Import → "Send mail as" — Gmail will then let you compose from it.
Will every website accept a plus-tag address?
No. Some forms reject the + character, and some services strip dots and tags before checking whether an address is already registered — so a variant is sometimes accepted, sometimes treated as your original address. Both outcomes are normal.
Does this work for Outlook, Yahoo, or my work email?
The dot trick is a Gmail behaviour; Outlook and Yahoo treat dots as meaningful parts of the address. Plus addressing exists on some other providers, but the combination on this page is built for personal @gmail.com (and @googlemail.com, which is the same inbox) addresses.
How many dot variants can this tool list?
Up to 4,096 dot spellings per list, with the true total for your name always shown in the status line. Plus tags: up to 50 of your own tags per run — enough for every service and category you actually use.
Is my email address stored or sent anywhere?
No. Generation runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. The address you type never reaches a server, is never logged, and disappears when you close the page. (This is also why the tool works offline once the page has loaded.)
Is this tool free?
Yes — completely free, no sign-up, no install.
Last updated: November 2026. More free tools from TodayCreators: the Bulk Roll Number Generator and Unique Date of Birth Generator for bulk test data, and the Bulk URL Opener for link work.
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