After starting News Wall for the first time two feeds are already there. You can add as many RSS feeds as you like. First, open up the settings screen by tapping on the little (i) at the top right corner.

Now press the “Edit” button at the top of this screen. Besides deleting and re-ordering feeds, you now can add a new feed by pressing the “plus” button which is right handed at the top.

There are two ways to subscribe to a feed. First, just enter the URL of a webpage or a feed and press on “Validate”. Second, open the build-in Feed Browser by tapping on “Open Browser”.

When using the Feed Browser you navigate to the page you want to use. When a feed is found, the RSS icon get visible. By tapping on it you open the list of discovered feeds. Now you simply need to select the desired feed. That’s it.

The screenshots are taken from an iPad. The screens look different on an iPhone but they work exactly the same way. This applies both to the paid and the free version.

When you read an article it gets marked as read automatically. Every feed displays the number of unread articles. The sum of all articles statistics is shown at the top of your screen. When you tap on this black bar, the wall menu appears giving you the opportunity to mark all articles as read. This means really all articles.

Furthermore, you can mark all articles of a single RSS feed simply by tapping and hold on the feed itself. This open the feed menu where you – again – have the option to mark the articles as read. This works both on iPad and iPhone.

After using News Wall or News Wall Free for some days you probably will have hundreds of articles especially when you use high-volume RSS feeds like engadget.com, 9to5mac.com or gizmodo.com. It can be a lot of work to scroll back to the first article, primarily on iPhone. However, there already is a built-in “jump to the first article” feature: just double-tap the title bar of the feed you want to be moved to the front.

Of course, this works on your iPad as well. This applies both to the free and the paid version.

Sometimes you may want to refresh only one of your RSS feeds. This is much faster than refreshing all your feeds. Doing so is really easy. Tap and hold on the one article of the feed you want to refresh to open up a menu. This menu contains a refresh button.

Feed menu on iPhone

Feed menu on iPad

Please notice that News Wall’s backend system caches feeds for 2 minutes. You will not receive new articles within this time. This applies both to the free and the paid (iPhone & iPad) version.

When you start News Wall or News Wall Free on your iPhone you will notice that there are no images. Because of the much smaller screen of your iPhone compared to an iPad, the app disables images by default. This way, more feeds can be displayed at a time. However, it’s quite simply to activate this feature.
Open the settings screen by tapping on the little (i) at the top-right corner. When you scroll down you will see a switch which enables the view of images.

From now on, the first image of every article is extracted from the RSS stream. News Wall downloads it so it gets stored on your device. Every pictures takes about 20 – 60 kBytes of your memory. Of course, they are deleted when you remove the RSS feed.
This applies both to the free and the paid version.