Here is the step-by-step guide to "install" Gmail as an app and pin it to your taskbar.
Scroll down to find Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge and enable their specific notification rights. gmail on taskbar windows 11
Once you click install, the website will open in its own window, and a new icon will appear on your taskbar (at the bottom of the screen). Here is the step-by-step guide to "install" Gmail
To get this on the taskbar , Mark pins Thunderbird. He then uses a free utility called or OneLaunch to mirror the system tray unread count onto the Thunderbird taskbar icon. It’s a bit hacky, but it works. To get this on the taskbar , Mark pins Thunderbird
The legacy route is powerful but heavy. Thunderbird syncs Gmail via IMAP, which can sometimes lag behind Google’s real-time push. More critically, Windows 11’s taskbar doesn’t natively support email badges for third-party desktop apps like it did on Windows 10. Mark has to rely on third-party overlays.
After testing all three, the most elegant and reliable solution is a hybrid:
It sounds like you want to "cover" or pin the Gmail website to your Windows 11 taskbar so that it opens like a standalone app (similar to how the Outlook app works). This is done using the Microsoft Edge browser.