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 25 May 2026

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05/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 215

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:46:11

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (17 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1008	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
10	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
16	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	230	PRX	79
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
20	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
23	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
29	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
33	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
37	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
38	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
39	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
40	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
41	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
43	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
44	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
47	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
48	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
53	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
54	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
55	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
56	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
62	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
65	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
66	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
68	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
69	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
70	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
71	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
72	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	73
74	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
76	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	41	BBC	58
78	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	342	Acast	64
79	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
80	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
83	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
85	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
86	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
87	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
88	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
89	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
92	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
94	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	161	Omny Studio	69
95	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
96	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
97	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
98	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
99	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
100	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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