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 04 Aug 2026

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08/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 115

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:34:15

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. Making Waves (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. Podcastics (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
4	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
5	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
8	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
11	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
12	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
15	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
16	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
18	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
19	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
20	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
21	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
22	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
23	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
25	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
26	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
27	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
28	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
29	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
30	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
31	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
32	Le Tour de France avec Sully	We Tell Stories	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	48
33	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
34	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
35	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
36	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
37	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
38	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
39	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
40	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
41	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
42	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
43	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
44	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
45	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
46	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
47	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
50	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
51	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
53	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
54	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
55	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
56	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
57	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
58	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
59	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
60	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
62	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
63	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
64	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
67	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
68	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
69	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
70	Le douze, le podcast 100% Aveyron	Sandrine Casses	Society & Culture	60	Podcastics	68
71	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
72	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
73	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
74	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
75	Dans l'impasse	Marsactu	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	38
76	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
77	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	35	Podcastics	69
78	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
79	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
80	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
81	Wild Wild Web - Geschichten aus dem Internet	ARD	Society & Culture	44	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
82	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
83	OMBRE ITALIANE	Angelo Soro	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	49
84	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
85	Parentèle : en quête d'une famille qui nous ressemble	Maude Boutin St-Pierre	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
86	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
87	Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit	Veridox	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
88	La beauté du geste	Patricia Auzas, Xavier Crombé et Caroline Thibaudeau	Society & Culture	3	Acast	48
89	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
90	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
91	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
92	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
93	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	57	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
96	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
97	Unscrewed Minds: The Pocket Sessions	Corkscrew Minds	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	17
98	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
99	La recherche à l'écoute	IRD	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	84
100	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

The podcast landscape in France is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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