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 29 Jul 2026

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07/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:46:38

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
9	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
14	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
19	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
24	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
27	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
30	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
34	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
35	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
36	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
39	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
42	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
43	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
44	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
45	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	479	Omny Studio	68
50	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
52	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
58	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
60	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
61	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
62	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
63	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
66	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
67	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
68	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
69	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
70	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
75	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
76	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
77	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
78	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations	CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk	Society & Culture	16	ART19	83
81	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
82	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
83	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
84	The Consciousness Cassettes	TTT Media	Society & Culture	14	ART19	62
85	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
86	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
87	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
88	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
92	Truth or Demons Podcast	Stevi	Society & Culture	59	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Prisoncast!	WBEZ	Society & Culture	11	PRX	43
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
95	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
96	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
97	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
98	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
99	The Crisis	VICE	Society & Culture	16	Acast	63
100	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69

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