A progressive web app is a website that behaves like an installed app: it goes on the home screen, opens without browser chrome, keeps working without a connection, and updates the moment you deploy rather than when a store approves it.
We ship our own products this way, so the trade-offs here come from running them rather than from a comparison table.
If you need deep hardware access, background location, or presence in the App Store for distribution reasons, native is the honest answer. We will say so rather than fit the project to what we prefer building.
Offline is a design decision, not a switch. What is cached, what happens to work created offline, and how conflicts resolve when two people edited the same record all have to be decided deliberately.
Yes, including home-screen install. Some browser APIs remain more limited on iOS than on Android, which we will flag if your project depends on one.
It can be wrapped for store distribution if that matters commercially, though most of the benefit of a PWA is in not needing to.
It means what you decide should work does. Full offline editing with sync is more work than offline reading, and worth scoping explicitly.
Tell us what you are trying to do. If something off the shelf already does it, or the job is smaller than you think, we will say so.
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