( CNN ) -- When they 're not hunting bad guys , the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has designed a smartphone application for concerned parents . Child ID , the first mobile app made by the FBI , provides parents with a place to keep information about their children handy in case of an emergency . Parents can create separate entries for each kid , complete with photos , height , weight and other descriptive details . Then if a child disappears at the shopping mall , for example , a parent can quickly reference the info from her phone when filing a report to police . The app also has buttons for calling 911 or the national missing children hotline , as well as for transmitting the data about a lost child over the Internet . For anyone skittish about creating dossiers of their family within software conceived by the feds , the FBI lists an `` important note '' stating : `` the FBI ( and iTunes for that matter ) is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app . '' The data is kept in the device 's memory and only transmitted when using the app for sending a report , the FBI says . Child ID debuted Friday as a free download for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners . The FBI plans to release versions of the program for other phones later , the government agency said in a statement . While the FBI is a newbie when it comes to building mobile apps , several other U.S. federal agencies have already released applications . The Internal Revenue Service , the Office of Personnel Management , the State Department , the Transportation Security Administration and the White House all have apps . Many are listed on USA.gov . The U.S. government seems to favor Apple 's mobile platform for many of its software releases . Aneesh Chopra , the White House 's technology chief , told the blog Switched two years ago that he uses a BlackBerry for work and an iPhone as his personal device .
The FBI released its first iPhone app on Friday . Child ID allows parents to catalog profiles of their children in case they go missing . The app is available as a free download for iPhone and iPod Touch owners .