All genres · October 2026

Top Podcasts

The biggest shows in podcasting right now, ranked by combining the daily top charts from Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Pocket Casts. A show that ranks well on every platform scores higher than one that tops a single chart, so this list reflects where listeners actually are, not just one app.

1

The Daily
The New York Times

Apple #1 Spotify #7 P. Casts #1

86Pulse Score out of 100
2

This American Life
This American Life

Apple #53 Spotify #50 P. Casts #2

35Pulse Score out of 100
3

Radiolab
WNYC Studios

Apple — Spotify #144 P. Casts #3

22Pulse Score out of 100
4

Planet Money
NPR

Apple #96 Spotify #135 P. Casts #4

25Pulse Score out of 100
5

Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #5

17Pulse Score out of 100
6

Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts

Apple #57 Spotify #63 P. Casts #6

28Pulse Score out of 100
7

99% Invisible
Roman Mars

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #7

15Pulse Score out of 100
8

Serial
Serial Productions & The New York Times

Apple #150 Spotify — P. Casts #8

17Pulse Score out of 100
9

Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Apple #106 Spotify — P. Casts #9

17Pulse Score out of 100
10

Up First from NPR
NPR

Apple #7 Spotify #11 P. Casts #10

58Pulse Score out of 100
11

Pod Save America
Pod Save America

Apple #20 Spotify #43 P. Casts #11

34Pulse Score out of 100
12

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Team Coco & Earwolf

Apple #79 Spotify #59 P. Casts #12

22Pulse Score out of 100
13

The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan

Apple #4 Spotify #1 P. Casts #13

80Pulse Score out of 100
14

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Dan Carlin

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #14

11Pulse Score out of 100
15

The Ezra Klein Show
New York Times Opinion

Apple #17 Spotify #54 P. Casts #15

32Pulse Score out of 100
16

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
NPR

Apple #167 Spotify #112 P. Casts #16

16Pulse Score out of 100
17

Fresh Air
NPR

Apple #94 Spotify — P. Casts #17

13Pulse Score out of 100
18

Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #18

9Pulse Score out of 100
19

Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Apple #159 Spotify #96 P. Casts #19

15Pulse Score out of 100
20

Science Vs
Spotify Studios

Apple — Spotify #71 P. Casts #20

14Pulse Score out of 100
21

SmartLess
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett

Apple #32 Spotify #36 P. Casts #21

27Pulse Score out of 100
22

Criminal
Vox Media Podcast Network

Apple — Spotify #151 P. Casts #22

11Pulse Score out of 100
23

Reply All
Gimlet

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #23

8Pulse Score out of 100
24

Today, Explained
Vox

Apple #108 Spotify #48 P. Casts #24

18Pulse Score out of 100
25

TED Radio Hour
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #25

7Pulse Score out of 100
26

The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR

Apple #116 Spotify #195 P. Casts #26

12Pulse Score out of 100
27

The Rest Is History
Goalhanger

Apple #39 Spotify #58 P. Casts #27

22Pulse Score out of 100
28

The Indicator from Planet Money
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #28

7Pulse Score out of 100
29

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central

Apple #75 Spotify #108 P. Casts #29

15Pulse Score out of 100
30

Throughline
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #30

6Pulse Score out of 100
31

You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #31

6Pulse Score out of 100
32

Huberman Lab
Scicomm Media

Apple #49 Spotify #28 P. Casts #32

24Pulse Score out of 100
33

Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #33

6Pulse Score out of 100
34

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #34

6Pulse Score out of 100
35

The Moth
The Moth

Apple #163 Spotify — P. Casts #35

8Pulse Score out of 100
36

If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #36

6Pulse Score out of 100
37

My Brother, My Brother And Me
The McElroys

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #37

5Pulse Score out of 100
38

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Marc Maron

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #38

5Pulse Score out of 100
39

Invisibilia
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #39

5Pulse Score out of 100
40

Lore
Aaron Mahnke

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #40

5Pulse Score out of 100
41

Search Engine
PJ Vogt

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #41

5Pulse Score out of 100
42

Ologies with Alie Ward
Alie Ward

Apple #181 Spotify #158 P. Casts #42

10Pulse Score out of 100
43

Hard Fork
The New York Times

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #43

5Pulse Score out of 100
44

The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #44

5Pulse Score out of 100
45

The Adventure Zone
The McElroys

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #45

5Pulse Score out of 100
46

Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman

Apple — Spotify #138 P. Casts #46

7Pulse Score out of 100
47

Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Apple — Spotify #137 P. Casts #47

7Pulse Score out of 100
48

Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Ringer

Apple #8 Spotify #6 P. Casts #48

54Pulse Score out of 100
49

The Vergecast
The Verge

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #49

4Pulse Score out of 100
50

How Did This Get Made?
Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts #50

4Pulse Score out of 100
51

Making Sense with Sam Harris
Sam Harris

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
52

Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
53

TED Talks Daily
TED

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
54

Global News Podcast
BBC World Service

Apple #140 Spotify #119 P. Casts #54

10Pulse Score out of 100
55

Crime Junkie
Audiochuck

Apple #2 Spotify #5 P. Casts #55

67Pulse Score out of 100
56

Life Kit
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
57

Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries

Apple — Spotify #171 P. Casts #57

6Pulse Score out of 100
58

Last Podcast On The Left
The Last Podcast Network

Apple #112 Spotify #35 P. Casts #58

17Pulse Score out of 100
59

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Ringer

Apple #15 Spotify #17 P. Casts #59

36Pulse Score out of 100
60

Slow Burn
Slate Podcasts

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
61

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
62

NPR News Now
NPR

Apple #72 Spotify #32 P. Casts #62

19Pulse Score out of 100
63

On the Media
WNYC Studios

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
64

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
65

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
MKBHD

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
66

FiveThirtyEight Politics
ABC News, 538, FiveThirtyEight, Galen Druke

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
67

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Apple #45 Spotify #67 P. Casts #67

16Pulse Score out of 100
68

Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World

Apple #134 Spotify — P. Casts #68

6Pulse Score out of 100
69

Consider This from NPR
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
70

Marketplace
Marketplace

Apple #115 Spotify — P. Casts #70

7Pulse Score out of 100
71

Stuff You Missed in History Class
iHeartPodcasts

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
72

Pivot
New York Magazine

Apple #87 Spotify #113 P. Casts #72

11Pulse Score out of 100
73

Science Friday
Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
74

Welcome to Night Vale
Night Vale Presents

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
75

Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
76

Code Switch
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
77

The Rewatchables
The Ringer

Apple #156 Spotify #80 P. Casts #77

10Pulse Score out of 100
78

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella

Apple #43 Spotify #12 P. Casts #78

30Pulse Score out of 100
79

Short Wave
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
80

The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
81

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
All Things Comedy

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
82

The Journal.
The Wall Street Journal & Spotify Studios

Apple #101 Spotify #19 P. Casts #82

21Pulse Score out of 100
83

The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
84

Revolutions
Mike Duncan

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
85

Embedded
NPR

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
86

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
87

The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire

Apple #67 Spotify #55 P. Casts #87

15Pulse Score out of 100
88

In The Dark
The New Yorker

Apple #38 Spotify #193 P. Casts #88

13Pulse Score out of 100
89

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
Dan Carlin

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
90

Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents

Apple #193 Spotify #199 P. Casts #90

7Pulse Score out of 100
91

More Perfect
WNYC Studios

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
92

Unexplainable
Vox

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
93

The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
94

Interesting Times
New York Times Opinion

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
95

Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Apple #109 Spotify #141 P. Casts #95

9Pulse Score out of 100
96

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The Verge

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
97

Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Dan Carlin

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
98

Monday Morning Podcast
All Things Comedy

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
99

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —
100

Lovett or Leave It
Lovett or Leave It

Apple — Spotify — P. Casts —

Showing Pocket Casts's own chart order. Platform columns show each show's position on every app's chart.