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 Aug 2026

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08/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:46:28

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	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	310	Megaphone	42
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
6	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
8	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
14	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
17	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
25	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
27	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
28	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
29	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
30	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
31	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
32	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
39	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
40	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
42	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
46	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
47	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
48	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
49	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
50	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
52	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
53	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
56	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
58	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
59	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
60	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
62	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
63	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
64	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
65	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
68	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
69	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
70	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
73	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
74	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
75	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
76	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
77	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
79	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
80	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
81	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
83	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
84	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
85	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
86	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
87	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
88	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
89	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	166	Omny Studio	69
90	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
91	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
95	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
96	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
97	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
98	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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