Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. 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 Jul 2026

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07/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 207

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:44:35

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (18 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
6	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
10	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
11	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
25	La Voz de la Generación Irrompible	Yhon Angel	Society & Culture	120	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
27	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
28	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
29	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
38	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
41	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
42	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
43	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
46	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
47	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
48	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
49	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
53	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
54	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
57	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
58	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
59	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
63	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
64	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
65	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
68	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
69	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
70	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
73	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
74	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
75	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
76	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
77	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
80	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
81	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
83	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
84	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73
85	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
86	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
87	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
88	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
89	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
90	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
93	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
94	Catastrophic Failure	Times Union	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	64
95	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
96	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
98	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
100	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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