What’s new
How Windchaser has changed, newest first.
November 2026
- Windchaser now uses less battery: the animated background stops when you are not looking at the page or have not touched it for a while (it starts moving again at the first tap), and eases off while you read further down.
- The water now runs clean right up to the beach: no more dark patches or bands at the shoreline, just a slightly lighter tone where it meets the sand. And the foam of breaking waves now fades out smoothly at its sides.
- New spot: Palamós, at Platja Gran, for windsurfing and winging in the south-westerly garbí. The background is the real beach, with the aerial photo and the groyne.
- In the settings, the sport you pick now stays highlighted instead of disappearing.
- At Le Goulet, La Mine and the seaplane base the background is now the real shore, with the aerial photo, the islet and the pier. And at every spot, the riders in the background steer clear of headlands, groynes and islands better. And the breaking wave follows the shape of each beach. With offshore wind the water is also smooth in the lee of a headland or an island, and at Llançà the wave now breaks on the beach.
- At Llançà the background is now Grifeu cove, with the real aerial photo. As it is a small cove between rocks, nobody sails in the background there: just the sea, the wind and the beach.
- At the spots in Portugal (Guincho, Lagoa de Albufeira, Martinhal and Alvor) the background beach is now the real aerial photo too, and the tide rises and falls over the sand in the photo.
- At Trabucador, the bay shoreline in the background is smoother and follows the beach in the photo more closely.
- In the background, the ripples, the whitecaps and the foam they leave behind now come from real aerial photos of a windy day at Port de la Selva. The background is seen from a little further away at every spot, and at nearly every Catalan spot (all but Llançà, for now) at La Franqui and at three more spots on the Leucate and Le Barcarès lagoons the beach is the real aerial photo.
- The buttons under the spots are now Next, Tomorrow and Weekend: one is always selected, a coloured dot tells you the wind to expect, and the line covers both days of the weekend.
- At Les Vignes (La Palme) and Le Goulet (Leucate), live wind from a nearby station, with a note because it's on land and it's usually windier on the water.
- At Parcs à huîtres (Leucate), the background now draws the real shore of the lagoon.
- At lagoon spots, the compass rose shows the whole lagoon with the spot in the middle, while the background still shows the shore in front of you.
- New spot: Creixell, on the Costa Daurada.
- In the background, gusts now show as darker patches on the water, the way you see them from the beach, and lulls look smoother and lighter.
- The top of the page now shows where to go today and where it will be windy at the weekend. A grid of spots and days takes you to each place, and the background tells you which spot and hour you are looking at. The big number starts with the best session, the same one the line at the top mentions.
- “Mine” now stays at the left of the spot bar, so you get back to it in one tap however many spots you have.
- Webcams now have a small pin in the corner that opens a map showing where the camera is.
- The session card now gives the day and hours in words and draws the wind for each hour of that day, with the current time if it is today.
- Below the number, wind, sky and sea are easier to read: how gusty the wind is, the chance of rain and the swell period.
October 2026
- New spot: Coma-ruga, in El Vendrell.
- New spot: the Spot des Vignes, on the La Palme lagoon.
- El Trabucador and el Fangar now tell you when the mistral blows and how many hours it will last.
- In “Mine”, if a spot you don’t follow has a much better session within reach, it tells you and takes you there.
- On iPhone, the options and spot picker sheets no longer get squashed.
- First spots in the Ebro Delta: el Trabucador and el Fangar.
- Four new spots on the Leucate lagoon: Le Goulet, La Mine, the Parcs à huîtres and the seaplane base.
- An icon opens directions to the spot (or its car park) in your phone’s maps.
- The forecast tells you what the sea will be like: swell, wind chop and tide.
- New spot: Parc des Dosses, on the Leucate lagoon.
- At the tramontane spots, a strip tells you where to go today and tomorrow, tested against past days.
- If you pick the days you can go out, the list and the week focus on those days.
- A Telegram channel with tramontane alerts for the Empordà and Leucate.
- Now in French too.
- A “Share” button to send a session on WhatsApp, with a preview image showing the day, hours and wind.
- Optional sound: the wind, sea and rain of the chosen hour, as you’d hear them at the water’s edge.
- The page loads much faster and is a third lighter.
- One options sheet: minimum wind, the days you can go out, your spots and alerts.
- The animated background runs more smoothly on phones.
- On the water, besides windsurfers, you now see foilers, wingfoilers and kitesurfers depending on the wind.
- The coastline in the background is the real one, with rocks, groynes and jetties.
- The compass rose shows the sun, swell, tide, clouds and rain for the hour.
- A button at the top to give us feedback or ask for a spot.
- Windchaser opens to everyone: how it works, contact and privacy pages, and it can be found on Google.
- In Catalan, Spanish, English and Portuguese.
- The background gets realistic: waves and swell from the forecast, breakers, tide, sun, cloud shadows, rain and fog.
- Windsurfers carry the right sail size for the wind, and now and then they fall and get going again.
- New spots in Portugal: Lagoa de Albufeira, Guincho, Martinhal and Alvor, with video webcams.
- Each spot in its own local time, a search box to pick one and, on phones, a sideways swipe to switch.
- It can be installed on your phone like an app, with steps for each browser.
- Windsurfers in the background sail with the hour’s wind and tack back and forth off the beach.
- You can see the wind on the water: gusts, waves and whitecaps from the forecast.
- New spot: Pals.
September 2026
- Your own spots, and phone alerts when a session is coming.
- New spots: la Rubina, Castelldefels and Leucate.
- Webcams and weather stations with live wind.
- A new look, with animated wind and a timeline to move through the week.
- Windchaser is born: the wind forecast for Llançà, el Port de la Selva, Sant Pere Pescador and Malgrat de Mar.