Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science Fiction

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 16 Apr 2026

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04/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 187

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:38:08

Top 5 authors

1. Mark R. Healy (4 shows)

2. Scott Sigler (3 shows)

3. GZM Shows (2 shows)

4. Fool and Scholar Productions (2 shows)

5. The Midnight Mystery (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (39 shows)

2. Acast (13 shows)

3. Libsyn (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media Inc.	Fiction	729	Audioboom	48
2	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	379	Megaphone	53
3	EXTRA ANORMAL Details temporarily unavailable	Paco Arias	Fiction	519	Simplecast	53
4	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
5	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	144	Acast	69
6	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	560	Megaphone	59
7	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
8	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
9	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	40	Acast	63
10	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
11	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	104	Spotify for Podcasters	48
12	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	68	Megaphone	69
13	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
14	Midst	Critical Role	Fiction	141	Megaphone	68
15	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
16	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
17	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
18	Hard Drive	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	73
19	Mission To Zyxx	Mission To Zyxx	Fiction	163	Simplecast	73
20	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
21	The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality	Dominic Guilfoyle	Fiction	74	Acast	89
22	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	531	Simplecast	58
23	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	258	Megaphone	38
24	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
25	La Mano Peluda	Radio Fórmula	Fiction	1248	RSS.com	32
26	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
27	Wanderer Chronicles Radio	Asa Bove Sobelow	Fiction	117	Buzzsprout	73
28	Relatos por Santiago Segovia	Campus Originals	Fiction	373	Spotify for Podcasters	22
29	Rabbits	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	25	Libsyn	58
30	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	167	Simplecast	58
31	The Penumbra Podcast	Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert	Fiction	222	Acast	79
32	Clarkesworld Magazine	Clarkesworld Magazine	Fiction	1196	Libsyn	43
33	Redwood Bureau	Eeriecast Network	Fiction	120	Megaphone	53
34	Caso 63	Spotify Studios	Fiction	63	Megaphone	59
35	Spyology Squad	Mr. Jim and Storybutton	Fiction	708	ART19	69
36	Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series	Scott Sigler	Fiction	306	Megaphone	68
37	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	390	Megaphone	63
38	DUST	Gunpowder & Sky	Fiction	47	Acast	74
39	Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper	Nathan Lowell \| Scribl	Fiction	124	Megaphone	58
40	End of All Hope	Bloody FM	Fiction	99	Simplecast	68
41	Relatos De Horror (Historias De Terror)	Relatos De Horror	Fiction	2186	Acast	43
42	Within the Wires	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	120	Megaphone	63
43	Star Trek: Khan	Star Trek	Fiction	10	Megaphone	63
44	The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature	GZM Shows	Fiction	22	ART19	78
45	Nightingale	GZM Shows	Fiction	19	ART19	73
46	Scott Sigler Slices	Scott Sigler	Fiction	263	Megaphone	54
47	EXTRA ANORMAL	iEX Studios	Fiction	536	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Inverted World Live	Shane Cashman	Fiction	281	Megaphone	63
49	EOS 10	Justin McLachlan and PlanetM	Fiction	40	Podbean	58
50	The Carrington Doctrine	Jimmy Swiss	Fiction	9	Spotify for Podcasters	43
51	Station 151	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	39	Megaphone	78
52	Havoc Town	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	79
53	WOE.BEGONE	WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC	Fiction	359	Acast	58
54	Escape Pod	Escape Artists Foundation	Fiction	300	Libsyn	43
55	ars PARADOXICA	ars PARADOXICA	Fiction	49	Libsyn	N/A
56	Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Audiobook	Jack Voraces	Fiction	137	Podbean	58
57	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	23	Megaphone	58
58	The Infected Trilogy	Scott Sigler	Fiction	94	Megaphone	84
59	LifeAfter/The Message	GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message	Fiction	22	Megaphone	79
60	The Liberty Podcast	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	90	Megaphone	73
61	Red Valley	Kontinue Productions	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
62	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	58	Megaphone	79
63	Windfall	Rogue Dialogue	Fiction	37	Megaphone	59
64	Beyond the Dark	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	19	Megaphone	59
65	Consumed	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	73
66	Mirrors	ZoomDoom Stories	Fiction	25	Libsyn	68
67	The 21CD Podcast	The 21CD Podcast	Fiction	180	Audioboom	32
68	I Am In Eskew	David Ward	Fiction	32	Acast	69
69	Our Fair City	Audacious Machine Creative	Fiction	106	ART19	68
70	Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection	Voyage Media	Fiction	26	Megaphone	48
71	The Deca Tapes	Lex Noteboom	Fiction	25	Megaphone	69
72	90 Degrees South Details temporarily unavailable	BMB Productions LLC	Fiction	85	Buzzsprout	83
73	Apollyon	Observer Pictures \| Realm	Fiction	48	Megaphone	63
74	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	69	Acast	63
75	Conversations with Ghosts	Dead Signals	Fiction	18	Libsyn	62
76	Expediente No Humano	Fepo	Fiction	41	Spotify for Podcasters	32
77	The Cryptonaturalist	Jarod K. Anderson	Fiction	69	Blubrry	49
78	Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? with Dylan & Dalton	Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth	Fiction	81	Unknown	83
79	Hello From The Hallowoods	William A. Wellman	Fiction	233	Buzzsprout	57
80	The Call of the Void	Acorn Arts and Entertainment	Fiction	33	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	The Phenomenon	Luciola Creative	Fiction	33	Libsyn	63
82	Become	Pinball Productions	Fiction	24	Acast	53
83	VAST Horizon	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	38	Megaphone	69
84	Get Into Gate: A Stargate Podcast	Get Into Geek	Fiction	357	Spreaker	42
85	WarHams	Narrative Declaration	Fiction	58	Transistor	84
86	Oakbridge - A Sci-Fi Mystery Audio Drama	97toNow Productions	Fiction	31	Podbean	68
87	ATERRADOS	Jason Thores	Fiction	98	Spotify for Podcasters	43
88	The Mystery Frequency \| Audio Drama Radio	The Mystery Frequency	Fiction	1025	RedCircle	53
89	Agents of the Inquisition: A Warhammer 40K RPG	Dumb-Dumbs & Dice	Fiction	71	Megaphone	68
90	Birds of Empire	QCODE	Fiction	33	Megaphone	63
91	Beneath the Cosmic Waves	Beneath the Cosmic Waves	Fiction	9	Podbean	53
92	Entropy: An Original Sci-Fi Audio Drama	David Ortiz	Fiction	8	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Dogman Tales	Vic Cundiff	Fiction	60	Spreaker	49
94	True Vault Escapades: A Fallout Audio Drama	Preston Hardin	Fiction	85	Megaphone	52
95	Escaping Denver	Escaping Denver / Curiouscast	Fiction	89	Megaphone	53
96	Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Audio Drama	Excelsior Productions	Fiction	64	Feedburner	63
97	The Other Stories \| Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories	Hawk & Cleaver \| A Digital Story Studio bringing you the best new stories to watch, read, sniff, and absorb.	Fiction	678	Acast	43
98	Signal Jammer!	Signal Jammer!	Fiction	1	Transistor	59
99	Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories	Vern Hume	Fiction	324	Blubrry	43
100	Janus Descending	No Such Thing Productions	Fiction	36	Libsyn	63

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