Fair play.
People ask whether this is cheating, and it is a fair thing to ask about any tool attached to a competitive shooter. So here is the whole answer, in plain language, rather than a paragraph of reassurance.
What it does
- It reviews matches you have already finished. The analysis happens afterwards, on a game that is already over and cannot be changed by anything it says.
- It records your own screen, if you turn that on. The desktop app is a recorder. It captures your gameplay so you can review it, the same as OBS or the Windows game bar.
- It checks whether Siege is running. By process name, so recording can start and stop without you remembering to. That is the only thing it ever looks for.
- It writes down what happened and where you went wrong. That is the whole product.
What it never does
- It never reads the game's memory. Nothing in SiegeIQ opens the game and looks inside it.
- It never sends inputs. No aim assist, no automated clicks, no macros, no key presses. Nothing in the product moves your mouse or presses anything.
- It never puts code into the game. Nothing is injected, patched, hooked or modified.
- It never tells you anything about the round you are in. Not enemy positions, not their operators, not their gadgets, not anything that happened this round. It has no way to know.
- It never plays for you. There is no automation of any kind.
The overlay, since that is the part people worry about
Two overlays exist and both are optional and off by default.
- The streamer overlay is for people who broadcast. It shows career statistics from a public profile, the same numbers already visible on that player's own profile page. It shows nothing about the match in progress, and it hides itself entirely if the profile is private.
- The focus note shows one line: the habit you decided to work on before you started playing. You wrote it. It carries no score, no numbers, and nothing that reacts to the game. It fades out after a few seconds. It is a sticky note on your monitor, and it was deliberately built to be nothing more than that.
What it cannot do
The limits matter as much as the guarantees, so they are here rather than buried.
- It cannot tell you anything about a player you have never played with.
- It cannot see a match you did not play in.
- It cannot promise you a rank, and it will never claim to.
- It can be wrong. The coaching written on top of the numbers is a judgement, and there is a thumbs down on every observation because it needs to be told when it gets something wrong.
- When something cannot be measured, it is left as unknown rather than filled in with a guess.
About Ubisoft
SiegeIQ is an independent product built by one person. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Ubisoft, and it cannot speak for them. So no honest version of this page can promise you what they will or will not do about anything.
What it can do is tell you exactly what the product does, which is what the two lists above are. If you read them and you are not comfortable, that is a completely reasonable conclusion, and you should not use it.
Common questions
Is this cheating?
No. It does not read the game, it does not touch your inputs, and it cannot tell you anything about a round you are playing. It looks at a match that has already ended and writes down what happened. Whether review tools should exist at all is a fair argument, and it is much older than SiegeIQ. Pro teams have had analysts doing this by hand for years.
Does it give me information other players do not have?
Only about your own past games, and only after they are over. Anyone can rewatch their own match. This does it faster and writes the notes for you.
What about other people in my lobby?
Reviews are about the person who uploaded them. If you believe something has been handled wrongly, mail privacy@siegeiq.gg and it gets looked at by a person.
Will it get me banned?
We cannot promise you that, and anybody who does is guessing. The two lists above are the honest version of that answer.
You would say all this either way. Why should I believe it?
Fair. Everything on this page describes behaviour you can check yourself: watch what the app does, watch what appears on your screen, and see whether anything ever reacts to a live round. If you find something on this page that is not true, mail support@siegeiq.gg and it gets corrected here in public.
If something on this page turns out to be wrong, it gets fixed here rather than argued about somewhere else.
Tell us →Last checked against the product on 25 August 2026. Rainbow Six Siege is a trademark of Ubisoft. SiegeIQ is not affiliated with Ubisoft.