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 30 Jun 2026

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06/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:46:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Omny Studio (17 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. ART19 (6 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	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	307	Megaphone	42
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
6	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
7	La Voz de la Generación Irrompible	Yhon Angel	Society & Culture	120	Spotify for Podcasters	32
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	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	436	Megaphone	32
11	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
17	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
21	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
22	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
27	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
29	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
34	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
37	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
38	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
41	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
42	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
45	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
46	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
47	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
51	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
54	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
56	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
57	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
60	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
61	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
64	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
65	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
67	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
68	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
71	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
73	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
77	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
78	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
79	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
80	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
81	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
82	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
83	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
84	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
85	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
86	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
87	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
88	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
89	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
92	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
93	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
94	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
95	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
96	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
98	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
100	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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