Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 03 May 2026

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05/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 99

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:33:05

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. Observador (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. INA (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Ausha (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
5	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
10	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
11	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
12	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
20	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
21	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
22	Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités	Samy Scoop	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
23	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
24	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
25	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
26	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
27	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
28	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
30	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
31	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
32	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
33	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
34	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
35	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
36	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
37	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
39	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
40	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
41	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
42	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
43	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
44	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
45	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
46	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
47	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	27	Transistor	63
48	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
49	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
50	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
51	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
52	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
53	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
54	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
57	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
58	O Encantador de Ricos	Observador	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	59
59	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
60	Os Segredos da Seita do Yoga	Observador	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	58
61	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
62	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
63	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
64	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
65	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
67	Being the King	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
68	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
69	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
70	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
71	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
72	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
73	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
75	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
76	AU LONG	Society	Society & Culture	47	Acast	69
77	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
78	Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit	Veridox	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
79	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
80	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
81	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	37
82	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
83	Women of the Seas	Le podcast des aventurières de la Mer	Society & Culture	20	Acast	74
84	Der Koch von Gaza	DIE ZEIT	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
85	René Capain Bassène, condamné à tort	Committee to Protect Journalists	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
87	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
88	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
89	Maudites chansons…de Noël	majelan X	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
90	Qui m'aime me suive !	Catherine Demangeot	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
91	Raconter le réel Doc	clement touron	Society & Culture	30	Ausha	63
92	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
94	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
95	疑案辦的有聲無影	重大歷史懸疑案件調查辦公室	Society & Culture	142	Firstory	49
96	Cinayet Dosyaları – Gerçek Suç Podcast’i	Hüseyin Küçük	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	37
97	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
98	Hailey Bieber - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	69
99	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
100	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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