A 12-year-old boy has invented a mobile app called "Save Me Pro."

Dylan Puccetti, a Texas middle schooler, created an Android app that could save somebody's life. The app is available at Google Play Store.

The SaveMePro app automatically sends an emergency text to a parent or anyone programmed into the app after clicking the power button eight times in a row.

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The phone will vibrate as a silent confirmation once the signal is sent.

Reports said users don't need to unlock their phone or open the app before they can use Puccetti's life-saving program.

The app is free but users can upgrade it for US$0.99 to unlock a GPS tracking service for 72 hours.

If he was being kidnapped or in trouble, the user can just press his phone's power button eight times inside his pocket to ask help, Puccetti said.

According to some reports, the young Puccetti got the idea to invent the app after he heard his dad, Michael Puccetti, talk about Jessica Cain, a teen who disappeared in 1997.

Dylan suggested that if Cain had an emergency alert button on her phone she may not still be gone, his dad said.

"His mind is always going. Dylan is always thinking of great stuff," Michael Puccetti, Dylan's dad, said.

The SaveMePro app is Dylan's second invention. The first one was a tool that teaches young baseball players how to pitch.

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