Does MacOS have a keyboard shortcut for moving an individual window to another monitor?

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What's the MacOS equivalent to Windows' keyboard shortcut to move AN individual window to another monitor? Let's assume a dual-monitor setup.

The specific Windows keyboard shortcuts I'm hoping to find equivalents to are the following:

macOS doesn't 'think' in monitors it thinks in desktops/spaces. One monitor can have many spaces & one space can be on either monitor. I'd say this would need a 3rd party tool. — Tetsujin, Aug 29, 2019 at 18:05
Catalina has that option, but no shortcut to it, It is under menu Window-> Move to Builtin Display or Window-> Move to External Display. But no shortcut either pressing option/command/shift with all combinations. But possible via acessing the menu with keyboard arrows or via mouse click. There is "minimize" using Command+M — Prado, Aug 29, 2019 at 18:10
As a Windows to MacOS user, I ended up using Spectacle to mimic those Snap features — ernie, Aug 29, 2019 at 18:11
@ernie, wow didn't realize there was vocabulary which captured the concept. Window snapping, I like it. How-To: Enable Aero Snap-like window snapping on your Mac It also jibes well with vector graphic drawing lingo as in Adobe Illustrator's Snap To Grid feature. — jxramos, Aug 29, 2019 at 20:07
this is partially answered in the mega-thread apple.stackexchange.com/a/66936/133605 — c69, Nov 17, 2020 at 16:36

benwiggy · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-25 13:54:56Z

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I don't think there's a default key shortcut, but if you look in the Window menu, there is a menu item there "Move to name of display".

So you could create shortcuts yourself in System Preferences > Keyboard for the command that is visible in each display.

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IconDaemon · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-25 16:10:03Z

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Spectacles has been discontinued.

I use the app Magnet, downloadable from the App Store, which has the "Next display" capability using:

Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+Left/Right

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Rectangle is a successor to Spectacles. It has an OSS version and a paid version with more features.
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