The YI is overall a good camera for the money. Never used an Apeman, but one acquaintance has one, and every time I mentions dashcams he starts cussing about it 'damn thing stopped working, waste of money', etc.
APEMAN does budget-level cams, Yi does good cams. No personal experience with either but that's what I get from reading sources I trust. Not saying all budget-level cam companies are bad, just that some are