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 15 Apr 2026

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04/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 122

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:37:19

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

3. RTL (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. RTBF (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Ausha (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

5. Transistor (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
10	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
11	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
12	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
15	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
19	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
20	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
21	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
24	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
25	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
26	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
29	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
30	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
31	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
32	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
33	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
34	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
35	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
36	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
37	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
39	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
40	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
41	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
42	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
43	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
44	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
45	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
46	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
48	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
49	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
50	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
51	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	69
52	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
53	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
54	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
57	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
58	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
59	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
60	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
61	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
62	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
63	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
64	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
65	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
66	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
68	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
69	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
70	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
71	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
72	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
73	Die Lieblingsschülerin	Deutschlandfunk	Society & Culture	8	Deutschlandradio	53
74	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
75	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
76	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
77	Le podcast du Boulon	Le Boulon	Society & Culture	89	Podcastics	49
78	Mirada 25	SER Podcast	Society & Culture	42	Triton Digital	43
79	Chroniques du Grand Domaine	Lili Sohn et Théo Boulenger	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
80	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
81	ROC Taiwan : la singularité d'une île	Muriel Couton / Virginie Jortay	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
82	Experience Free Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Full Audiobook	Society & Culture	1998	Unknown	53
83	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
85	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
86	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
87	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
88	Die Akte Tengelmann - Ein Milliardär verschwindet	Podimo	Society & Culture	9	Podigee	83
89	De chez les fêlés	Emmanuelle Gautier	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	69
90	Turbulences : traverser les troubles anxieux	Julien Morissette (Transistor Média)	Society & Culture	1	Transistor	73
91	Sortir de l'urgence	FHF (Fédération Hospitalière de France)	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	84
92	juste un moment	ipso santé	Society & Culture	5	Acast	74
93	Stormens öga	Dagens industri	Society & Culture	34	Podspace	49
94	Studio 56	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	63
95	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
96	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
97	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
98	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
99	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	13	Spreaker	74
100	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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