User guide
Last updated 19 September 2026
Crazy Wall is a bookmark manager that looks like a bulletin board. You save a link and it goes up as a card that looks like what it is — a recipe card, a newspaper clipping, a now-playing song. The point is that you find things again by eye, rather than by reading a list of blue text and hoping.
That’s the whole idea. Everything below is detail.
Saving something
Anywhere you can tap Share, you can save to Crazy Wall.
- In Safari, YouTube, Maps or anything else, tap Share.
- Choose Crazy Wall.
- Pick a wall there and then — or don’t, and let it wait in your Pin Queue.
The Pin Queue is the pile by the front door: things you’ve saved but haven’t decided about yet. Nothing is lost in there and nothing nags you about it. Sort it out on a wet Sunday.
Inside the app, the + button adds three things directly: a Link, a Place, or an Index Card you write yourself. Saving works offline, so the tunnel and the plane are both fine.
Walls
A wall is a board for one kind of thing. Recipes. The reading list. Somewhere to plan a trip that may or may not happen.
Make as many as you like — there’s no limit, and there’s no prize for keeping it to a sensible number. A wall opens as a tidy grid with the newest thing first, so the last thing you saved is the first thing you see.
Each wall has its own background and its own choice of pins, tape or nothing at all, so two walls never blur into each other.
Finding it again
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. Your eye does the work before you’ve read a word.
When you do need to look, there are two tools:
- 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.
- Search. Looks everywhere at once — every wall, and the Pin Queue too.
Tidy, and Crazy
Every wall opens tidy: a neat grid, newest first, the version you’d happily show a colleague.
Tidy
Crazy
Then there’s the other mode. On iPad and Mac — or an iPhone turned sideways — tap Crazy 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 what the day calls for.
And 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. Press and hold a strand to change its colour — there are sixteen, and no, you don’t need sixteen.
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 to save the whole wall as a picture.
Two settings worth knowing about, under Settings → Appearance:
- Wonkiness — how crooked cards hang, from Level-headed to Maniac.
- Yarn droop — how much the string sags, from Taut to Droopy.
Neither changes what anything does. They’re there because it’s your wall.
On your devices
Crazy Wall is free on any one device — iPhone, iPad or Mac — with as many walls and as many bookmarks as you like. Not a trial, not a nagging free tier. If one device is all you use, that’s the whole app, for nothing.
$7.99 a year is 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. It syncs through your own iCloud, so it’s your storage and your account, not mine.
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.
The one thing the app does send is an anonymous count of which features get used — that Crazy got tapped, not what was on the wall when you tapped it. Never your links, titles or wall names. Switch it off in Settings → Privacy and nothing about the app changes. The privacy policy has the detail.
If you get stuck
Settings → Help & FAQ covers the usual questions. Settings → Feedback & contact opens a message to me, or you can get in touch here.
That’s not a support queue with a ticket number. Crazy Wall is made by one person, and that person reads everything and answers it himself. If something is broken, confusing, or nearly right but not quite, I’d rather hear it than not.
And if you build a wall you’re pleased with, send me a picture of it. Export on the toolbar makes one. That’s the best part of the job.