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 26 May 2026

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05/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 129

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:33:39

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (19 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 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	134	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
4	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
8	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
11	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
15	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
17	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
20	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
21	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
22	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
23	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
24	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
25	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
26	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
27	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
29	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
30	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
31	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
32	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
33	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
34	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
35	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
36	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
37	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
40	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
41	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
42	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
43	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
44	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
45	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
46	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
47	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
48	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
49	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
50	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
53	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
54	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
55	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
56	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
57	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
58	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
59	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
60	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
61	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
63	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
64	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
65	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
66	Avenirs par AirZen	AirZen Radio	Society & Culture	40	Audiomeans	64
67	أثر الفراشة	Atheer ~ أثير	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	73
68	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
69	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
71	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
72	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
74	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	45	Ausha	43
75	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
76	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
77	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
78	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
79	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
80	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
81	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
83	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
84	Samy Scoop : les sombres secrets des célébrités	Samy Scoop	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
85	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
86	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
87	Les gens	lesgenspodcast	Society & Culture	6	Vodio	64
88	Décisives	Parlement Européen	Society & Culture	47	Acast	74
89	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
90	Révolutions philosophiques	majelan X	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	69
91	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
92	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
93	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
94	Playlist Halloween - Mort de Ci-trouille	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	27	Audion	43
95	The Backrooms 101	Sharp-B-4	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
97	XXI	Revue 21	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	79
98	Une vie, une histoire	Par Milim de Myriam Levain et Elisa Azogui-Burlac	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	64
99	Les Mystères d'Hippocampe	Catherine Yerle	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	73
100	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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