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 21 Apr 2026

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04/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Jack Laurence (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
8	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
15	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
27	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
33	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
37	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
38	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
41	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
42	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
43	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
44	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
45	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
47	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
49	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
50	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
51	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
52	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
53	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
55	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
56	My Phantom Memory	Silver Podcast Network	Society & Culture	4	RedCircle	49
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
60	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
61	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
63	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
64	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
66	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
67	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
69	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
70	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
71	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
72	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
73	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
74	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
75	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
78	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
81	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
82	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
83	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
84	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
85	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	Prisoncast!	WBEZ	Society & Culture	11	PRX	43
87	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
88	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
89	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
91	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	92	Acast	89
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
96	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
97	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
98	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
99	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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