# WalletConnect \[The backstop for connecting accounts to third-party apps]

[WalletConnect](https://walletconnect.network) connects a Splits account to a third-party app over a pairing link. **Prefer the [browser extension](/introduction/extension)**: it makes Splits appear directly as a wallet in the app. WalletConnect is the backstop for when the extension can't run:

* Browsers without extension support (e.g. Safari)
* Apps that don't support [EIP-6963](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6963) provider discovery, so Splits never appears as a wallet option
* Apps known to mishandle the extension: Monerium, and [Rain](/integrations/rain) during setup

## Connecting

1. In the third-party app, choose WalletConnect as the wallet and copy the pairing URI.
2. On the account's page in Splits, paste the URI into the WalletConnect section and approve the connection.

The app's transaction and signature requests then appear in Splits, where you sign at the account's [threshold](/accounts/thresholds), the same as any transaction. Requests can also be [added to a batch](/transactions/batch#batching-from-external-apps).