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An automatic broadcast for the CS2 matches you spectate: a CS2 HUD and stream overlay, a camera director that follows the action, and with Pro and Studio two casters, JAX (play-by-play) and ROWAN (analyst). It runs on your Windows PC: the overlay is drawn over the game and the casters play through your PC's sound.

No chatbot writes it. The commentary comes from IntelliHUD's own real-time game analysis: positions, economy, utility and the round state, with small statistical models for the win probability and the site read. The voices of JAX and ROWAN are synthetic: a neural text-to-speech service turns the lines into speech, so what you hear is AI-generated audio.

That is what it is for. You watch the match in CS2 as a spectator, through GOTV or from a demo, and IntelliHUD casts what you see. It only runs while you spectate and switches off when you play in the match yourself.

Any CS2 match you can spectate through GOTV, and any CS2 demo. Community leagues, cups, scrims, your team's match nights.

English today. A choice of caster languages is planned for the Studio plan. The website and the app are in English and German.

The casters follow the actual round: kills, trades, clutches, buys and saves, site hits, win chances. They are automatic, so a line can be wrong or badly timed now and then; they will not replace a great human duo, they cover the matches that would otherwise have no cast at all.

IntelliHUD uses only the interfaces Valve documents for observers and overlays: Game State Integration, console commands and demo files. It does not read game memory, inject anything or simulate input. Valve can change its rules, so we re-check when they announce changes.

No. You spectate with your normal account. IntelliHUD only runs while you spectate and switches itself off when you play in the match yourself.

No. It shows what any spectator of the match sees, and it does not run while you are a player. Follow your league's rules on streams and delays.

A PC with Windows 10 or 11, Counter-Strike 2 and an internet connection. OBS is optional. See the download page.

No. IntelliHUD draws the overlay directly over the game on your screen and plays the casters through your PC's sound, so any streaming software or screen capture works. If you use OBS, IntelliHUD sets it up in one click: it fills in your channel and stream key, adds the overlay as a browser source and starts and stops the stream. More on the CS2 HUD for OBS page.

Wherever your streaming software can: Twitch, YouTube, Kick and others. Make sure you have the right to stream the match and follow the platform's rules.

They stay encrypted on your PC. Our servers never see them.

Yes, on every plan: a league logo slot, rotating sponsor slots, and logos on the break screens. Replacing the IntelliHUD branding itself comes with Studio.

Pro (10 matches with casters per month) and Studio (50 matches with casters per month). Basic gives you the automatic camera director, the overlay and the logo slots for unlimited matches, without casters and subtitles; single matches with casters add them to any plan, and your first match with casters is free.

Yes. The voices of JAX and ROWAN are synthetic, generated by a neural text-to-speech service on our servers. That is why the casters need an internet connection; without one there is no voice. What they say is not invented by an AI: it comes from IntelliHUD's real-time analysis of the round.

Removing or replacing the IntelliHUD branding in your stream, and 50 matches with casters per month. A choice of caster languages and cloud streaming to your own channel without a PC are planned for Studio and not available yet.

One CS2 match that is cast with the casters. A match counts after 3 rounds with the casters, so a crash or disconnect at the start doesn't cost you a match. Reconnecting to the same match never counts twice, also after restarting the app or when the teams switch sides. Voice previews in the app are not matches. A fair-use limit per match applies, about twice what a normal match needs.

Yes. Buy matches with casters one-time, €2.99 per match, from 3 matches: each with everything from Pro (casters, overlay, camera director), no subscription, and bought matches don't expire. Every new account also gets 1 free match.

Yes: 1 free match with casters, and everything from Pro. Every new account gets it as soon as the e-mail address is confirmed. It can be used once per PC.

The numbers count matches with casters only: Pro includes 10 matches with casters per month, Studio 50. They renew at the start of each calendar month; unused matches don't carry over. Basic has no casters included. The overlay and the camera director are not counted at all: they run for unlimited matches with any active plan, Basic included.

Yes: buy single matches, from 3 per purchase, with any plan or without one. Each comes with everything from Pro, and bought matches don't expire at the end of the month. Your plan's included matches are always used first. See single matches.

Matches with casters you buy one-time, from 3 per purchase, with any plan or without one, at the same price. They suit you if you cast now and then and don't want a subscription, or if one month needs more matches than your plan includes.

With an active plan, the overlay and the camera director keep working and the casters stop until the next month or until you add matches with casters. Without a plan (you cast with single matches or the free match), IntelliHUD stops completely when they are used up. A match that is already running is always cast to the end.

No. An account casts on one PC at a time. A second PC gets a notice that the account is casting elsewhere and can take over about two minutes after the first one stopped.

Without an active plan and without matches with casters left, IntelliHUD does not run at all: no overlay, no camera director, no casters. If your plan ends or your matches run out during a match, that match is finished; the next one is not cast. Your account and your settings stay, and you can choose a plan or buy matches with casters again at any time.

You choose. With auto-renew your plan renews every period until you cancel. With manual renewal it ends at the end of the paid period unless you renew it yourself. You pick the mode when you subscribe and can switch any time in your account.

By card and other methods through Stripe. You get an invoice by e-mail for every payment, and all invoices are in your account under Manage subscription.

For consumers in the EU, yes. Business customers with a valid VAT ID from another EU country are billed without VAT (reverse charge); enter the VAT ID at checkout.

Any time, in your account under Manage subscription. A cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you already paid for.

Stripe tries again over the next days and you keep your plan meanwhile. Update your payment method under Manage subscription. If every attempt fails, the subscription ends.

Use "Forgot your password?" on the log-in page. The link is valid for one hour, and a reset logs you out everywhere, also in the desktop app.

Write to us (contact in the Impressum). We delete it within 30 days, except what the law requires us to keep, such as invoices.