User guide
Last updated October 1, 2026
Crazy Wall is a bookmark manager that looks like a bulletin board. Save a link and up it goes as a card that looks like what it is — a recipe card, a newspaper clipping, a now-playing song. It’s your bookmarks, laid out where you can actually see them!
So what goes on a wall? Anything you’re gathering up. Writing a paper? Give it a wall: the sources, the quotes you swear you’ll cite, and the one article that changed your mind, with yarn from each argument to its evidence. Planning a wedding? Venues on one wall, the band on another, and the dresses on a third you show exactly one person. Sick of hunting through six websites for that one lasagna? Pin every recipe you actually cook to a wall and, ta-da, you’ve got a personal cookbook. It works for the trip, the kitchen remodel, the next car, the science fair project and the someday-garden, too.
That’s the big idea. Everything below is gravy.
Saving stuff
If you can tap Share, you can save it to Crazy Wall. Easy as 1, 2, 3:
- In Safari, YouTube, Maps or anything else, tap Share.
- Choose Crazy Wall.
- Pick a wall right then and there — or don’t! It’ll wait for you in the Pin Queue.
While you’re there you can add tags (the ones you used last are at the front), flip Favorite if it’s a keeper, or flip Unread if it’s one for later. All optional. Pin to Queue on its own is one tap, because you have a bus to catch.
Here’s a good one: highlight a sentence in Safari before you tap Share, and the card keeps it as a quote, right under the title. Perfect for the line you swear you’ll cite. (It doesn’t work from Safari’s Reader view, sadly.) You can write your own note at the foot of any link or place, too: it’s the Quote / Note box when you edit the card.
On the Mac, Crazy Wall is in the Share menu too. Switch it on once from the Share menu’s Edit Extensions… — the Mac likes to be asked nicely. You can also drag a link out of Safari’s address bar, or some text out of anything, and drop it straight onto a wall.
Inside the app, the + button adds three things directly: a Link, a Place, or an Index Card you write yourself. Saving works offline, too. Tunnels, planes, the back of the lecture hall: all fine.
The Pin Queue
Think of the Pin Queue as the pile by the front door: stuff you’ve saved but haven’t decided about yet. Nothing gets lost in there, and nothing nags you about it, either. Sort it out on a rainy Sunday. Or don’t. I won’t tell.
It sits at the top of the sidebar with a count beside it, and it’s a wall like any other: tap it and everything waiting is up on cork as cards, or as a list if you’d rather read than look. iPad and Mac open straight onto it, so whatever you saved on the go is the first thing you see. A brand-new copy has three sample bookmarks waiting in there to get you started; delete them and they stay gone. On the Mac, Settings → Dock can put the count on the Dock icon, the way Mail does.
To file something, drag its card onto a wall in the sidebar (iPad and Mac), or choose Pin to wall… from its menu. To file a handful at once, tap Select, tick them, and send them all to one wall together. On the Mac, pick them the way you would in Finder: ⌘-click, ⇧-click, or ⌘A for the lot.
Every card, wherever it is, has a menu: touch and hold it on iPhone and iPad, or right-click on the Mac. If you’re wondering how to do something to a card, it’s almost certainly in there.
Walls, walls, walls
A wall is a board for one kind of thing. Recipes. The reading list. That trip you’re totally, definitely taking one of these years.
Make as many as you like! There’s no limit, and there’s no prize for keeping it to a sensible number. Each wall has its own background — cork, blackboard, flip chart, whiteboard, blueprint, felt or red brick — and its own choice of pins, tape or nothing at all, so two walls never blur into each other.
Cork Board · Pin
Blackboard · Tape
Flip Chart · Pin
White Board · Tape
Blueprint · Nothing
Felt Board · Pin
Stand Up Wall · Tape
A wall opens as a tidy grid with the newest thing first, so the last thing you saved is the first thing you see. The sort button beside search changes that: Oldest First, Favorites First, Untagged First, or By Type, which puts the videos with the videos and the recipes with the recipes. Each wall remembers its own.
The arrangement button on the toolbar gives you four ways to look at any wall:
- Tiled — the grid. Where every wall starts, and where plenty are happy to stay.
- Crazy — the cards come off the grid and go wherever you put them. The fun bit; more on it below.
- List — one slip per card, for reading down a wall rather than looking across it. Less charming, very efficient.
- Worldview — every place on the wall, on a map. Tap a marker to see its card, and switch between Map, Hybrid and Satellite. It’s grayed out on a wall with no places, because a map of nothing is just the sea.
List
Worldview
Pinned something to the wrong wall? Happens to the best of us. Move to wall… in the card’s menu sends it to another one, and Move to Pin Queue puts it back in the pile. To move several, tap Select on iPhone and iPad, tick the cards, and move them together; on the Mac, ⌘-click, ⇧-click or ⌘A them, then right-click. And if the wall they belong on doesn’t exist yet, the last row of the wall picker is New Wall…, which makes it on the spot and puts them straight on it.
Oops? On the Mac, or an iPad with a keyboard, ⌘Z takes it back: a move, a delete, an edit, a strand of yarn. A deleted card comes back whole, tags, yarn and all. ⇧⌘Z changes your mind again. Both are in the Edit menu, too.
On iPad and Mac, any wall can have a window of its own: touch and hold it in the sidebar (right-click, on the Mac) and choose Open in New Window. The Mac also does tabs, with Open in New Tab or ⌘T. Quit with a few open and it asks whether to keep them; say yes, and next time each one comes back looking at the same part of the same wall. Recipes on the left, the wedding on the right, nobody gets confused.
Feeds: the news, pinned up fresh
A feed wall is a website’s newest articles, hung up as cards. Hot off the press! Choose Add a Feed, paste the site’s RSS address, and give it a name and a background like any other wall. Five are there to start you off, so you’ve got something to read before you go hunting for RSS addresses. Unsubscribe from any you don’t want and they stay gone.
A feed wall shows the latest fifteen articles and nothing older, so there’s nothing to catch up on and no count going up while you sleep. The cards are the feed’s, not yours, until you keep one: Copy to wall… in its menu puts your own copy on a wall of yours, to tag and tie yarn to.
Now, where did I put that?
Most of the time you won’t search at all. You’ll just spot it. A recipe looks like a recipe card, an article looks like a clipping from a newspaper, a song looks like it’s playing, and a podcast wears its cover art. Your eye does the work before you’ve read a word.
When you do need to look, you’ve got backup:
- Tags. Put “dessert” on three things and you’ve made a shortlist without meaning to. Tags cut across walls, so it doesn’t matter where you filed it. Start typing one and the tags you already have offer themselves, so “desert” and “dessert” don’t end up as two. And a tag on a card is a button: tap it and you get every pin wearing that tag, from every wall, on one board, with a back button to wherever you came from.
- Favorites. Love a pin? Give it a gold star: Favorite in its menu, or the switch in the share sheet as you save it. Every starred pin is gathered on the Favorites wall, while each one stays on its own wall too.
- All Pins. Everything you’ve saved, newest first, on one wall. For when you know you saved it but not where.
- All Places. Every place from every wall on one wall, and Worldview puts the lot on one map. Where was that taco truck again?
- Untagged. The pins still waiting for a tag. Tag one and it leaves, which makes this the place to tidy up (or to feel quietly judged). Select a few and tag them all at once.
- Search. Looks everywhere at once — every wall, and the Pin Queue too.
Tap a tag…
…and it’s a wall
All Pins, Favorites, Unread, Untagged and All Places sit near the top of the sidebar. They’re ways of seeing your pins together, not places pins live, so nothing moves when you look. On any of them, Show on Wall in a card’s menu takes you to where it really lives. Don’t want one? Touch and hold its row (right-click on the Mac) and choose Hide. Settings → Sidebar brings it back.
Read it later (no, really)
Plenty of what you save is stuff to read. So mark it: Mark as Unread in a link’s menu, or the Unread switch in the share sheet as you save it. The card gets a little READ ME slip paperclipped to it, and it turns up on the Unread wall in the sidebar alongside everything else you’re meaning to get to. Open the link and it counts as read; the slip comes off by itself. Changed your mind? Mark as Read is right there in the menu.
And you can read without leaving your wall. Switch on Open bookmarks inside Crazy Wall in Settings → Browsing, and a link opens right there, on a sheet of paper over the wall it lives on. Flip the Original | Reader switch at the top for just the words: no ads, no pop-ups, no “subscribe to our newsletter.” If you’d always rather have the words, Open bookmarks in Reader Mode makes Reader the default. Reader knows a news story from a Reddit thread: when a page isn’t really an article, the switch grays out and you get the page as it is.
Got a device with Apple Intelligence? Try Settings → Crazy Wall Labs → Show AI summaries in Reader, and a short summary sits at the top of each article. It’s written on your device; the article never leaves it. Labs is where the not-quite-finished fun goes, so it may change as it grows up.
Tidy, and Crazy
Every wall opens tidy: a neat grid, newest first, the version you’d happily show a colleague.
Tidy
Crazy
And then there’s the fun one. Choose Crazy from the arrangement button and the grid comes apart. Cards spread across the cork at loose angles and you drag them wherever you think they belong. Near each other. In a corner. In a heap, if that’s the kind of day it’s been. Switch back to Tiled and they go back to the grid; switch to Crazy again and they’re where you left them. It works on iPhone too, though an iPad or a Mac gives your elbows more room.
Best of all, you can tie yarn between two cards! Real red string, from one pin to another, because you decided those two things are connected. Nothing computes it for you; that’s the point. Drag one card onto another and let go, or choose Connect to… from its menu and tap the other card. It works in the grid too. Press and hold a strand (click it, on the Mac) to change its color or snip it — there are sixteen colors, and no, you don’t need sixteen. But they’re there!
Every card hangs a little crooked, the way things do on a real board. Put a finger on one, or the pointer over it, and it swings level on its pin so you can read it, then swings back when you let go. To change a card’s tilt for good, choose Rotate… from its menu: the toolbar turns into a tilt slider until you’re done. (A two-finger twist works too. Shh, it’s a secret.)
The toolbar along the bottom has the rest: Fit to see everything at once, zoom in and out, Hide Yarn when the strings get busy, Level Pins to straighten every card at once, and Export, which saves the whole wall as a picture (or as a bookmarks file — more on that below). In Worldview, Export makes a picture of the map.
A few settings worth a twiddle:
- Wonkiness — how crooked new cards hang, from Level-headed to Maniac.
- Yarn droop — how much the string sags, from Taut to Droopy.
- Show toolbar labels — on iPad and Mac, turn it off for icons only.
None of them changes what anything does. They’re there because it’s your wall.
The practice wall (go ahead, break it)
Every copy of Crazy Wall comes with a sample wall, The Roswell Anomaly, marked sandbox. Drag things around, tie yarn, delete whatever you like. It puts itself back together every time the app starts, and it never syncs, so there’s nothing you can break for good. The truth is out there! When you’re done with it, switch off Show sample wall in Settings → Walls and it’s hidden on all your devices.
iPhone, iPad, Mac: all together now
Crazy Wall is free for up to 30 pins — bookmarks, places and cards — and five feeds, on one iPhone, iPad or Mac, with as many walls as you like and every feature switched on. Delete a pin and you’ve room for another. The practice wall, the sample bookmarks and the articles on your feed walls don’t count.
$8.99 a year takes the limits away, and it’s for people who want all their devices to agree with each other. Save something on your phone on the bus, and it’s on the iPad when you get home, and on the Mac on Monday. Your walls, pins, tags, yarn and feeds all come along. It syncs through your own iCloud, so it’s your storage and your account, not mine. You can try it free for 14 days first, and when you subscribe, whatever’s already on that device joins in. Nothing gets replaced.
One thing it isn’t: a second screen. Crazy Wall isn’t built for two devices sitting side by side, mirroring each other live. It’s built for putting one down and picking up the other later. Your changes travel through iCloud, and iCloud picks its own moment. Often that’s a second or two, which can make it look instant. Sometimes it’s longer, and watching for a pin to show up on the other device is a lot like watching a pot, waiting for it to boil. Nothing’s lost in the meantime. It’ll be there when you pick it up.
If you stop subscribing, nothing you’ve pinned goes anywhere. Every pin stays where it is, and you can still open and export all of them. Your devices just stop syncing, and once you’re over 30 pins or five feeds, you delete one to make room for something new.
You’ll need iOS 26 or later, or macOS 26 or later.
Your bookmarks are yours
There’s no account to make and no password to forget. There’s also no server of mine for your bookmarks to sit on — they live on your devices and in your own iCloud, and nowhere else.
This isn’t a promise about how carefully I’d look after your data. It’s that I genuinely could not tell you what you’ve saved. There’s nowhere for me to look.
And if you ever want to leave, you can take everything with you. No hard feelings! A wall’s Export button has Export as Bookmarks (HTML)…, the standard bookmarks file every browser can import. Settings → Export → Everything (.zip) packs up the lot in one go: your links and places as that same bookmarks file, your feeds as OPML for any feed reader, and your index cards as plain Markdown, a folder for each wall plus the Pin Queue.
The app sends anonymous counts of which features get used, but never your links, titles or wall names. You can switch it off in Settings → Privacy. The privacy policy has details on this.
Stuck? Holler!
You’re reading the user guide, so that’s a great start. It’s in the app too, under Settings → About → User guide, next to Help & FAQ for the usual questions. Contact support, just below, opens a message to me, or you can get in touch here. On the Mac, Help → Send Feedback… does the same.
Also under Settings → About: What’s new shows what the latest update brought (older release notes are on the blog), Show welcome again replays the tour from the start, and Show tooltips again brings back the little hints.
If something is broken, confusing, or nearly right but not quite, tell me! I read every message, and I write back.
If you’ve made a wall you’d like to share, by all means export a picture of it and send it along to me. It’s been a lot of fun to see your feedback. Thanks for trying Crazy Wall!
— C. A.