[1] The program is aimed at power users and strives to be "the mutt of rss feed readers.

"[1] Newsbeuter is entirely controlled by the keyboard, and its default keybindings resemble those of vi.

[1] Newsbeuter's appearance and keyboard shortcuts are configured with a single text file.

[11] The program is often featured in magazine articles and software lists to demonstrate the power and versatility of the command line interface.

[7][12][13][14] As an alternative to compiling the source files, Newsbeuter can be installed from pre-built binary packages on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, PLD Linux, and OS X through the Homebrew package manager.