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 12 May 2026

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05/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 130

Frequency: every 55 days

Duration: 00:40:34

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Making Waves (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. INA (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (11 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 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	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
13	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
14	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
20	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
21	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
22	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
25	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
26	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
29	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
30	Tout est affaires	Outre-mer la 1ère	Society & Culture	9	Octopus	43
31	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
32	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
33	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
34	Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités	Samy Scoop	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
35	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
36	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
37	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
38	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
39	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
40	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
41	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
42	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
43	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
44	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
45	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
46	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
47	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
48	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
49	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
50	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
51	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
52	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
53	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
54	NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind	NRC	Society & Culture	30	ART19	83
55	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
56	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
57	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
58	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
61	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
62	Money Trauma	Miho Soon	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
63	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
64	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
65	כאן דוקו - ההסכת Kan Docs - The Podcast	גואל פינטו	Society & Culture	54	Omny Studio	27
66	Danni Irreversibili - Il Caso Michael Jackson	Vois con Roberta Lippi e Lorenzo Brillo	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
67	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
68	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
69	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
70	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
71	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
72	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	24	Transistor	63
73	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
75	Here Be Monsters	Here Be Monsters	Society & Culture	155	Squarespace	73
76	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
77	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
79	How to Grab Full Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	hotaudiobook.com	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
80	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
81	Lauren Lake's Paternity Court	MGM Studios, Inc., and Audio Up, Inc.	Society & Culture	235	Simplecast	58
82	Parole aux réfugié·e·s	France terre d'asile	Society & Culture	10	Podcastics	84
83	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
84	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
85	Ce qui nous lie	Domitille Tassin	Society & Culture	36	Ausha	63
86	Verts - Le Podcast	Groupe Linear	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
87	Les escapades de la sommelière en baskets	Cobalt Production	Society & Culture	55	Podcastics	69
88	Improbable	BBC Mundo	Society & Culture	10	BBC	39
89	The Superhero Complex	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
90	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
91	Pour moi, la famille	Coalition des familles LGBT+	Society & Culture	17	Spotify for Podcasters	73
92	Sexualité Sous Surveillance	Sexualité Sous Surveillance	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
94	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
95	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
96	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
97	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
98	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
99	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
100	Descendances	Alice Fidelle et Clara Haelters	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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