it is far different from Apecoin. Apecoin developers are Ape Foundations which faciliatate Apecoin and it is under Yuga Labs who a we3 company which created the famous Bored Ape Yacht Club. Apeswap.finance who's native token is Banana is different from apecoin.
Many projects have Ape in their project names and token names but it does not mean those projects are related with each other by team members or project developments. Like with Bitcoin, there are hundreds of Bitcoin forks and they usually name their projects and coin names with Bitcoin as part of their names like Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Gold ... However, it is wrong to say Bitcoin has any relation with them about team members, developers or any other things.
Apeswap is more focus on Defi where Apecoin focuses on web3 technology. Apecoin is definitely has a lot more support from the community given that it made a very successful launch and it's coin value being supported and not falling too deep.
Apeswap is a DeFi project and if OP want to know more about them and what's going on recently with their project development, marketing, join their Telegram group and ask questions.
Get links to their communities on Coinmarketcap
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/apeswap-finance/