• An ape is a member of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates.

• Ape, Inc., video game development company
• Ape, Latvia, a town in Latvia, northwest of Alūksne
• A*P*E, a 1976 film
• APE tag, a tag format used to add metadata to digital audio files
• Piaggio Ape, a small Italian tricycle pickup-truck
• a pseudonym of Carlo Pellegrini
• .ape, a common filename extension used by Monkey's Audio, an audio codec

• the family Hylobatidae consists of 4 genera and 13 species of gibbons, including the Lar Gibbon and the Siamang, collectively known as the "lesser apes"
• the family Hominidae consisting of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans, collectively known as the "great apes".

Like other methods of compression, the main advantage of using Monkey's Audio lies in a reduction of bandwidth and/or a reduction in storage requirements, but, in the case of Monkey's Audio, there is no sacrificing of the integrity of the audio source (as there would be with, for example, MP3). For example, a digital recording (such as a CD) encoded to Monkey's Audio can be decompressed into an identical copy of the audio data. Audio sources encoded to Monkey's Audio are typically reduced to about half of the original size.