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 23 Apr 2026

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04/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Podgo (4 shows)

3. Audible Original (2 shows)

4. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (17 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	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	313	Megaphone	42
7	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
11	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
12	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
14	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
15	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
23	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
30	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
33	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
35	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
36	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
39	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
40	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
41	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
42	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
45	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
46	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
48	Prisoncast!	WBEZ	Society & Culture	11	PRX	43
49	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
50	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
51	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
54	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
55	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
56	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	277	Megaphone	32
57	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
58	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
59	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
60	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
61	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
62	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
64	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
65	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
66	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
67	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
68	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
71	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
72	Mystic Sciences Theater	Al-Steve	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	68
73	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
74	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
75	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	712	Omny Studio	53
76	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
77	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
78	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
79	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
80	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
81	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
83	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
86	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
87	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
88	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
90	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
91	Crazy House Mysteries	Podgo	Society & Culture	4	ART19	53
92	Everyday Heroes	Podgo	Society & Culture	4	ART19	53
93	Frontier Fables	Podgo	Society & Culture	3	ART19	53
94	85,000: The Podcast	SLAP The Network	Society & Culture	9	WideOrbit	48
95	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
96	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
97	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
98	Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	48
99	Historical Reframe	Podgo	Society & Culture	7	ART19	53
100	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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